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Moving
the cursor
Many
people find that reading screens of text page by page is made easier when
one is able to indicate particular pieces of text with some kind of pointing
device. Since this is the case, GNU info
(both the Emacs
and standalone versions) have several commands which let you move the cursor
about the screen. The notation in this documentation to describe keystrokes
is identical to the notation used within the Emacs manual, and the GNU
Readline manual. See “Characters, Keys and Commands” in GNU Emacs
Manual, if you are unfamiliar with the notation.
The following table lists
the basic info
cursor movement commands.
Each entry consists of the
key sequence to type to perform the cursor movement: a command like M-x,
and a short description of what it does. M-x
is also a command; it invokes execute-extended-command.
See “Keyboard Input” in the GNU Emacs Manual for more detailed
information.
Cursor motion also uses a
numeric argument, as described in Miscellaneous
commands. A numeric argument executes a command that many times;
for example, 4
given to next-line
moves the cursor down 4 lines.
A negative numeric argument
reverses the motion; thus, an argument of -4
for the next-line
command moves the cursor up
4 lines.
-
C-n
(next-line)
-
Moves the cursor down to the
next line.
-
-
C-p
(prev-line)
-
Move the cursor up to the previous
line.
-
-
C-a
(beginning-of-line)
-
Move the cursor to the start
of the current line.
-
-
C-e
(end-of-line)
-
Moves the cursor to the end
of the current line.
-
-
C-f
(forward-char)
-
Move the cursor forward a character.
-
-
C-b
(backward-char)
-
Move the cursor backward a character.
-
-
M-f
(forward-word)
-
Moves the cursor forward a word.
-
-
M-b
(backward-word)
-
Moves the cursor backward a
word.
-
-
M-<
(beginning-of-node)
-
b
-
Moves the cursor to the start
of the current node.
-
-
M->
(end-of-node)
-
Moves the cursor to the end
of the current node.
-
-
M-r (move-to-window-line)
-
Moves the cursor to a specific
line of the window. Without a numeric argument, M-r
moves the cursor to the start of the
line in the center of the window. With a numeric argument of n,
M-r
moves the cursor to the start of the
nth
line in the window.
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