Essential Shortcuts

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Navigation:

C-a move to beginning of line
C-e move to end of line
C-k kill (cut) from cursor to end of line
C-y yank (paste) text that was previously killed
M-y cycle through killring (needs to immediately after a C-y)
C-t transpose (swap) previous and next characters
C-p previous line
C-n next line
C-b back
C-f forward
C-h delete
C-d reverse delete
esc-< beginning of file
esc-> end of file

Highlighting:

c-space start highlighting (then navigate with navigate commands)
c-return start block highlighting (repeat to turn off)

File management:

C-x-C-f open file
C-x-C-k kill buffer
C-x-b switch to buffer (like switching tabs)
C-x-C-b view list of open buffers

Buffer management:

C-x-o switch to next visible buffer

Execute Emacs fns

M-x run arbitrary command