11  Moving Around Your Document

Emacs makes it extremely easy to move around your document without needing to use your mouse or trackpad (although, you can always use those, too!). Some of the most common commands to move throughout the document are:

Moving by screens:

Command	Function
C-v	Move forward one screen (a couple lines of overlap will be provided).
M-v	Move backward one screen.
C-l	If you do this once, it will center the screen on your cursor. If you do this again, your cursor will move to the top of the screen. If you do this once again, your cursor will move to the bottom of the screen.

Moving by characters:

Command	Function
C-p OR <up key>	Go to the previous line.
C-n OR <down key>	Go to the next line.
C-b OR <left key>	Move one space backward.
C-f OR <right key>	Move one space forward.

Moving by words:

Command	Function
M-f	Go to the next word.
M-b	Go to the previous word.

Moving in a line:

Command	Function
C-a	Go to the beginning of the line.
C-e	Go to the end of the line.

Moving between sentences:

Command	Function
M-a	Go to the beginning of the sentence.
M-e	Go to the end of the sentence.

Moving to the extremes:

Command	Function
M-shift-, OR M-<	Go to the beginning of the document.
M-shift-. OR M->	Go to the end of the document.

Moving your screen (without moving the cursor):

Command	Function
C-<up key>	Move the visible part of the buffer up.
C-<down key>	Move the visible part of the buffer down.