Emacs is a very powerful and flexible text editor.

This is a very quick walk-through of essential emacs commands, based on my own experience of the commands I use most frequently.

I’m giving the key shortcuts, because those are the ones I use. But running in a GUI, you can use mouse navigation for such things as switching windows, and there are menu items for many of the commands.

I thought that this list would be short, but once I started writing I thinking about new stuff that I should include. Eventually I had to cut it down to what I really think are the basics.

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