Learn Emacs keyboard shortcuts
Practice Emacs 2025 keyboard shortcuts with timed drills. Memorize all 201 hotkeys and keybindings faster through interactive exercises.
Top shortcuts
- Alt+X — execute extended command
- Ctrl+Z — suspend Emacs (or iconify it under X)
- Ctrl+X — exit Emacs permanently
- Ctrl+X — read a file into Emacs
- Ctrl+X — save a file back to disk
- Ctrl+X — save all files
- Ctrl+X — insert contents of another file into this buffer
- Ctrl+X — replace this file with the file you really want
- Ctrl+X — write buffer to a specified file
- Ctrl+X — toggle read-only status of buffer
- Ctrl+H — Show help
- F1 — Show help
- Ctrl+H — Enter tutorial
- Ctrl+X — remove help window
- Ctrl+Alt+V — scroll help window
- Ctrl+H — apropos: show commands matching a string
- Ctrl+H — describe the function a key runs
- Ctrl+H — describe a function
- Ctrl+H — get mode-specific information
- Ctrl+G — abort partially typed or executing command
- Ctrl+X — undo an unwanted change
- Ctrl+Slash — undo an unwanted change
- Ctrl+L — redraw garbaged screen
- Ctrl+S — search forward
- Ctrl+R — search backward
- Ctrl+Alt+S — regular expression search
- Ctrl+Alt+R — reverse regular expression search
- Alt+P — select previous search string
- Alt+N — select next later search string
- Enter — exit incremental search
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