My Emacs keybindings

This page assumes you are using my emacs config at http://github.com/leeorengel/.emacs.d

This page has been organized roughly in order of importance in terms of the minimum keybindings you need to know to get going in emacs. Subsequent sections include more advanced groupings of keybindings.

Table of Contents

• Basic
• Navigation
  • Within buffer
    • Basic Motion
    • Jumping Around
    • Jumping Around (Key Chords with Avy)
  • Across buffers
• Selection/Copy/Paste
  • Expand-region
  • Advanced
• Editing
• Evil
  • Editing
  • Visual
  • Searching
• Searching/Replacing
• File Management
• Directory Management
• Window Management
  • Windmove
• Frame Management
• Projectile
• File Navigation (NeoTree)
• Multiple Cursors
• Coding
• Coding Navigation
• Commenting
• Smartparens
  • Navigation
  • Editing
• Clojure
• CIDER
• Version Control (Magit)
• Org Mode
  • TODO Lists
  • Table Editing
• Eshell
• Minibuffer
• Markdown
• Workgroups
• Help
• Miscellaneous
• Credits

Basic

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-x C-x	M-q	Quit
C-x C-s	M-s	Save
	SPC f e R	Reload config
	SPC f e d	Open .spacemacs

Navigation

Within a buffer

Basic Motion

Keybindings for very basic cursor movement.

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
C-p	k	move cursor to previous line
C-b	h	move cursor backward one character
C-f	l	move cursor forward one character
C-n	j	move cursor to next line
C-S-p	5k	move cursor up 5 lines (e.g. faster)	Custom keybinding courtesy of magnars
C-S-n	C-e	move cursor down 5 lines (e.g. faster)	Custom keybinding courtesy of magnars
M-b	b	move cursor to previous word
M-f	w	move cursor to next word
C-M-b	(	move cursor to previous s-expression
C-M-f	)	move cursor to next s-expression
C-a	0	Go to beginning of line
C-e	$	Go to end of line
	f<char>	Go to next occurrence of char on line
	F<char>	Go to previous occurrence of char on line
	t<char>	Go to next occurrence before char on line
	T<char>	Go to previous occurrence before char on line

Jumping Around

Keybindings for jumping around inside a single buffer.

Keybinding	Spacemace Keybinding	Description	Notes
s-[	s-[	Previous cursor position within buffer	Custom keybinding
s-]	s-]	Next cursor position within buffer	Custom keybinding
M-<	gg	Go to beginning of buffer
M->	G	Go to end of buffer
M-g g	:X	Go to line number X
C-l	M	Center screen at cursor/point
M-v	C-u	Scroll to previous screen
C-v	C-d	Scroll to next screen

Jumping Around (Avy)

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
jj	SPC SPC	Jump to char
jk		Jump to consecutive chars
jl	SPC y	Jump to the beginning of a line (avy-goto-word-1)
xx	SPC :	Executed extended command(execute-extended-command)

Across buffers

Keybindings for moving in between open buffers.

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-x	SPC b p	Previous buffer/file
C-x	SPC b n	Next buffer/file

Selection/Copy/Paste

Commands for selecting, cutting, copying and pasting regions of text.

Keybinding	Spacemacs keybinding	Description
C-SPACE	SPC v	Mark the beginning of a selection
C-x C-x	o	Toggle between beginning and ending of selection
M-w	y	Copy selection
C-w	d	Cut and copy selection
C-y	p	Paste (yank from kill ring)
C-x h		Select entire buffer region

Expand Region

Keybinding	Spacemacs keybinding	Description
C-=	SPC v	Initiate expand region
C-=	v	Expend region by semantic unit
C--	V	Contract region by semantic unit
	r	Reset the region to initial selection
C-g	ESC	Leave expand-region mode

Selection advanced

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
C-M-@		Select s-expression
C-M-h		Select function

Editing

Keybindings for making changes within a buffer.

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
C-/	u	Undo
C-S-/	C-r	Redo
C-x u	SPC a u	Undo tree visualize
C-Shift-Del	dd	Delete current line
C-k	d$	Delete rest of line from cursor
M-0 C-k	d0	Delete from cursor to beginning of line
M-Del	db	Delete previous word
M-d	de	Delete next word
	daw	Delete current word
C-c d	yyp	Duplicate current line
C-x C-t	SPC x t l	Swap line with line above
M-z	df	delete up to char	Keep hitting char to go to next occurrence. C-K to delete.
M-\		delete all surrounding whitespace and tabs around cursor

Evil

Evil Editing

Keybinding	Description
r	Replace a single character
cc	Change/replace entire line
cf<char>	Change/replace to first occurrence of char from current position on current line
ct<char>	Change/replace up to first occurrence char from current position
cw	Change/replace to end of word
c$	Change/replace to end of line

Evil Visual Mode

Keybinding	Description
aw	Select a word
ab	Select a () block
aB	Select a {} block
ib	Select inner () block
iB	Select inner {} block

Evil Searching

Keybinding	Description
/ followed by a regex, then RET	Search within current buffer
? followed by a regex, then RET	Search backwards within current buffer
n	Next occurrence in search
N	Previous occurrence in search
:%s/old/new/g	Search/replace old with new globally in buffer
*	Search for next occurrence of word at cursor
#	Search for previous occurrence of word at cursor

Transposing

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
M-t l	SPC x t l	Transpose lines
M-t w		Transpose words
M-t s		Transpose s-expressions
M-t p		Transpose params

Searching/Replacing

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-s	SPC s b	Find next occurrence in buffer
	SPC s p	Search within project
C-r		Find previous occurrence in buffer
C-M-s		Find next occurrence using regex in buffer
C-M-r		Find previous occurrence in buffer

File Management

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
C-x b RET	SPC b b	Create a new/open recent buffer
C-x 4 b RET		Create a new buffer in new window
C-x C-f	SPC f f	Open a file
C-x f	SPC f r	Open recent file
C-x k RET	SPC b d	Close buffer
	SPC b R	Reload buffer
C-x C-s	SPC f s	Save buffer
C-x C-w RET	SPC f s	Save buffer to file
C-c D	SPC f D	Delete current buffer & file	custom keybinding
M-x	SPC :	Enable mode in file

Directory Management

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-x d	SPC a d	Open Dired
<		Previous directory in listing (skips files)
>		Next directory in listing (skips files)
f		Open file
v		View file
^		Go up to parent directory
d		Mark file for deletion
x		Delete files marked for deletion
q		Quit
+		Create directory
=		Compare file at point with previously marked file
m		Mark a file for action
u		Unmark a file for action
t		Toggle marking
! <shell command string>		Run shell command on file at cursor

Window Management

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-x 1	SPC w m	Close all other windows except current window
C-x 2	SPC w s	Split current window horizontally
C-x 3	SPC w v	Split current window vertically
C-x 0	SPC w c	Close current window
C-x o	SPC TAB	Switch to next window
M-- C-x o		Switch to previous window
M- C-x o		Jump ahead # of windows
C-M-Shift-v		Scroll backward other window
C-M-v		Scroll forward other window
C-x {		Shrink window narrower
C-x }		Grow window wider
	SPC w =	Balance split windows
	SPC <window_num>	Jump to window number

Windmove

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
S-<left>		Move to window to the left of current window
S-<right>		Move to window to the right of current window
S-<up>		Move to window above current window
S-<down>		Move to window below current window

Frame Management

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-x 5 1		Close all other frames except current frame
C-x 5 2		Split current frame horizontally
C-x 5 0		Close current frame
C-x 5 o		Switch to next frame
C-x C-n		Create new frame

Projectile

Project navigation. An alternate prefix is Command-P.

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
M-S-o (default is C-c p f)	SPC p f	Open file in project with completion	Custom keybinding
M-S-f (default is C-c p s s)	SPC p s	Search all files in project using regex	Custom keybinding
M-e (default is C-c p e)	SPC p r	Show all recent opened files in project	Custom keybinding
C-c p F		Open file in ANY project with completion
C-c p r		Find/replace all files in project
C-c p b		Show all open project buffers
C-c p p	SPC p p	Switch between known projects
C-c p D		Open root project in dired
C-c p k		Kill all buffers in project
C-c p !		Run shell on root of project as current dir
C-c p p		Show all known projects

File Navigation (NeoTree)

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
<f8>	SPC f t	Toggle project explorer
RET	RET	Open file in main window
	# RET	Open file in window #
|	|	Open file in vertical split
-	-	Open file in horizontal split
C-c C-n	c	Create a new file or dir if filename ends with '/'
C-c C-d	d	Delete a file or a directory
C-c C-r	r	Rename a file or a directory
g	gr	Refresh project explorer
U	U	Go up one node in tree
D	D	Go down one node in tree
	H	Previous sibling
	L	Next sibling
A	TAB	Toggle widening explorer window
S	H	Go to previous sibling node in tree
s	L	Go to next sibling node in tree
H	s	Toggle showing hidden files

Multiple Cursors

See https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el

Keybindings	Description	Notes
C-S-c C-S-c	Mark consecutive lines with multiple cursors	First select lines
C-<	Mark previous occurrence of word	First select word
C->	Mark next occurrence of word	First select word
C-c C-<	Mark all occurrences like selection

Commenting

Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
SPC ;	Comment to end of line
SPC c l	Comment lines
SPC c L	Invert Comment lines

Coding

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	IntelliJ IDEA
C-,		Auto-complete at point	M-SPC
C-x C-i	SPC s j	List definitions in file and jump	M-F12
C-c p c	SPC c C	Run compile on project
C-c p P		Run tests on project
C-c p t	SPC p a	Toggle between implementation and test file

Code Navigation

Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
( and )	Jump to beginning/end of paragraph
{ and }	Jump to previous/next empty line
[[	Jump to previous } in column 0
]]	Jump to next } in column 0

Smartparens

Using base keybindings for paredit. Smartparens annoyingly hijacks various emacs keybindings in a way I don't like (e.g. M-DEL for kill word backwards)

Smartparens Navigation

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
C-M-b		Move backward one s-expression	Must be on a paren, otherwise behaves like backward word
C-M-f		Move forward one s-expression	Must be on a paren, otherwise behaves like forward word
C-M-d		Move down to next nested s-expression
C-M-n		Move up s-expression
C-M-u		Move up one level in nested s-expression	Requires fix for OSX interception of the keybinding (see http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/20544/11397)

Smartparens Editing

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
(		Wrap currently selected region with parens	Use with expand-region
M-s		Remove parens immediately surrounding cursor point
C-(,C-{		Pull in or out previous word/s-expression into current s-expression
C-),C-}		Pull in or out next word/s-expression into current s-expression
M-<up>		Remove all chars before cursor point inside s-expression and surrounding parens
M-<down>		Remove all chars after cursor point inside s-expression and surrounding parens
M-r		Remove all chars around cursor point inside s-expression and surrounding parens
M-S		Split current s-expression into two separate ones with cursor as split point
C-M-t		When cursor is placed between s-expressions, swaps (transposes) their positions

Clojure

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
C-c RET		clj refactor prefix	See commands
M-x clojure-cheatsheet		Clojure command cheatsheet

CIDER

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
C-c M-j		Cider jack-in, opens nREPL in a clojure project
C-c C-k		Load (eval) the current buffer
C-c C-e		Eval form before current cursor position
C-c C-v v		Eval form around current cursor position
C-c C-v r		Eval the region and display result in echo area
C-c C-v n		Eval the entire current namespace
C-c C-z		Switch the REPL buffer
C-c M-z		Load (eval) the current buffer and switch to the REPL buffer
C-c M-n		Switch the namespace of the REPL buffer to the namespace of the current buffer
C-c C-x		Reload all modified files on the classpath
C-c C-t n		Run tests in current ns
C-c C-t t		Run a test at the cursor position
C-u C-M-x		Start debug session
C-c C-d d		Display doc string for the symbol at point
C-c C-.		Jump to some namespace on the classpath
,		Once repl is open, get command keybindings
C-c C-q		Quit current REPL session

Version Control (Magit)

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-x m	SPC g s	See current git status/changed files
g		Reload status buffer
c c, <write message>, C-c C-c	c c, <write message>, C-c C-c	Commit file
P u	P u	Push changes to remote
F u	F u	Pull latest changes
s		Stage file
u		Unstage file
b b		Switch branch
navigate to file, then TAB		Version diff
k		revert changes
l l		Show log
b		Switch to branch
B		Create a new branch
z		Stash changes
A		Unstash changes
I		Exclude file(s)
M-x magit-clone		Clone a repo
q	q	Quit

Eshell

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-z		Open eshell
M-p		Go back in command history
M-n		Go forward in command history
C-c C-r		Clear the shell buffer
M-r		search backwars in command history with regex
M-s		search forward in command history with regex
!!		Repeats the last command
!ls		Repeats the last commnd starting with ls

Org mode

TODO Lists

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-c C-p		Move up a heading
C-c C-n		Move down a heading
C-c C-b		Move up a heading, same level
C-c C-f		Move down a heading, same level
TAB		Toggle heading open/closed states
S-TAB		Toggle entire buffer heading open/closed states
M-<down>		Move heading down
M-<up>		Move heading up
M-<left>		Promote heading
M-<right>		Demote heading
C-RET		New heading
M-RET		New list item entry
/		Search inside org mode
C-c -		Cycle item type
S-, S-		Cycle state of TODO item

Table Editing

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description
C-c |		Convert active region into a table
C-c C-c		Re-align table
TAB	SPC m t l	Re-align the table and move to the next field
S-TAB	SPC m t h	Re-align the table and move to the previous field
| RET	SPC m t i c	Insert new column to the right
RET	RET	Re-align the table and move to the next row
C-c SPC	SPC m t b	Blank the table cell at cursor
C-c -	SPC m t i h	Insert a horizontal rule on next line
M-<left>	SPC m t H	Move column at cursor to the left
M-<right>	SPC m t L	Move column at cursor to the right
M-S-<left>	SPC m t d c	kill current column
M-S-<right>	SPC m t i c	Insert a new column to the left of the cursor
M-S-<up>	SPC m t d r	Kill the current table row
M-S-<down>	SPC m t i r	Insert new row above current row

Help

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
M-x describe-key	SPC h d k	Tell which function is bound to key combo
C-h b	SPC ?	All active keybindings with flx-ido narrowing	Custom keybinding
C-h a <topics> RET		Search help system for matches to
type key prefix and wait 1 sec	type key prefix and wait 1 sec	Get remaining completion options	via which-key
C-h m		Display documentation of the current major mode
C-h f		Run help-apropos, an interactive version of apropos-command

Workgroups

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
C-c z C-s		Save current session for workgroup
C-c z C-f		Load a session for a given workgroup
C-c z c		Create a new workgroup
C-c z v		Switch to a workgroup

Markdown

Reference: http://ddloeffler.blogspot.ca/2013/04/keybindings-for-emacs-markdown-mode.html

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
C-c C-t h		Create heading
C-c C-a l		Create link
C-c C-a L		Create anchor link
C-c C-s e		Italisize selection/region
C-c C-s s		Bold selection/region
C-c -		Horizontal rule

Minibuffer

Keybindings for use inside the minibuffer.

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
TAB		Auto-complete as much as possible
SPACE		Complete up to one word
RET		Complete and execute
?		Show completion possibilities
M-r		Regex search backward through command history
M-s		Regex search forward through command history
C-g or Esc Esc Esc	fd	Abort current command

Miscellaneous

Keybinding	Spacemacs Keybinding	Description	Notes
M-x ediff		Diff Files
C-x v =		View diff of current file
M-x procd		View processes (like top)	OR C-x p (with global keybinding)
C-x d		File browser (dired)
C-x g		Search in Web hooks	custom binding
C-c u		View URL
C-x C-f /remotehost:filename RET		TRAMP remote file editing	Open a directory to get a Dired buffer!
M-$		Check and fix spelling at cursor

Credits

• Magnar Sveen
• Bozhidar Batsov's favourite keybindings
• Awesome Emacs