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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