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Moving around in emacs

The arrow keys move the cursor in the key's designated direction.
Control-f
move the cursor forward on the same line.
Control-b
move the cursor backward on the same line.
Control-n
move the cursor to the next line.
Control-p
move the cursor to the previous line.
Control-a
move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Control-e
move the cursor to the end of the line.
Control-v
move down one screen.
Esc v
move up one screen.
Esc $<$
move the cursor to the beginning of the file.
Esc $>$
move the cursor to the end of the file.
Esc xgoto-line num
move cursor to line num.



Eric Rountree
2000-10-20