| Ctrl v | | move forward a page |
| Alt v | | move back a page |
| Ctrl a | | move cursor to beginning of the current line |
| Ctrl e | | move cursor to the end of the current line |
| Ctrl h | | Get a list of help options, Ctrl h again describes what they are. Ctrl h, then t - tutorial, i -info reader |
| Ctrl a, Ctrl space | | Set the mark |
| Ctrl w | | Deletes the text in the region (between the mark and the cursor) |
| Ctrl y | | Paste the text in the buffer at the current cursor location |
| Alt w | | Copy the text in the region |
| Ctrl k | | kill text |
| Alt y | | Replace yanked text with the previous block from the kill ring.(the ring of buffers where deleted and copied text is stored) |
| Ctrl x x a | | Copy the region into register a |
| Ctrl s | | Search for text |
| Ctrl r | | Search backward |
| Alt Ctrl s | | Search for something like jo.*n matching john, joan, etc |
| Alt % | | replace a string, space to replace, delete to skip, period to stop. |
| Alt x string | | replace all the string without prompts |