I don’t like memorizing a whole lot of emacs keyboard short cuts. I use smex mode, which allows me to type M-x and then the function name. I prefer that for the new commands that I learn. I will still use C-d to delete a character; doing M-x delete-char is pretty silly.
Here is a list of the functions that I use.
| Smex | mode | keyboard | function name |
|---|---|---|---|
| ?? | CIDER | C-c M-n | cider-repl-set-ns |
| ?? | CIDER | ?? | cider-repl-jack-in |
| ?? | default | M-g M-g | goto-line |
| ?? | default | C-g | keyboard-quit (If you pressed a command by mistake, this will undo it) |
| ?? | default | Esc-shift-5 | query-replace |
| ?? | default | C-x C-c | save-buffers-kill-emacs |
| ?? | any | ?? | toggle-truncate-lines |
You can find these by typing M-x describe-key and then doing the key sequence.
Someone at the University of Houston has an excellent page with common emacs functions and their key bindings. I made a copy (with a few additions) on my site.
You’re welcome.