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Emacs

Emacs

A legendary editor with infinite customizability, extending beyond a mere editor to a Lisp-extensible integrated development environment

Navigation shortcuts that master cursor movement and scrolling to quickly reach target positions even in large files

Ctrl+B
Move backward one character
Moves the cursor one character to the left.
💡 Hint: Backward
🎯 Move left precisely character by character for fine cursor adjustment
Ctrl+F
Move forward one character
Moves the cursor one character to the right.
💡 Hint: Forward
🎯 Move right precisely character by character to reach target editing position
Ctrl+P
Move to previous line
Moves the cursor to the previous line.
💡 Hint: Previous
🎯 Move to previous line to streamline vertical navigation
Ctrl+N
Move to next line
Moves the cursor to the next line.
💡 Hint: Next
🎯 Move to next line for smooth document browsing
Ctrl+A
Move to beginning of line
Moves the cursor to the beginning of the current line.
💡 Hint: Alpha (beginning)
🎯 Instantly jump to line start to efficiently begin line editing
Ctrl+E
Move to end of line
Moves the cursor to the end of the current line.
💡 Hint: End
🎯 Quickly move to line end to append or edit at line end
Alt+<
Move to beginning of buffer
Moves the cursor to the beginning of the buffer.
💡 Hint: < points to beginning
🎯 Jump to file beginning to get an overview of entire document
Alt+>
Move to end of buffer
Moves the cursor to the end of the buffer.
💡 Hint: > points to end
🎯 Move to file end to check latest content
Ctrl+V
Scroll up (page down)
Scrolls the screen one page down.
💡 Hint: View next
🎯 Scroll down one page to efficiently browse documents
Alt+V
Scroll down (page up)
Scrolls the screen one page up.
💡 Hint: View previous
🎯 Scroll up one page to quickly review previous content