Emacs is not a text editor, it is a text editing environment for manipulating text in many contexts. Many things can be represented as text, some better than others.

Contents 1 Keyboard Shortcuts 1.1 Movement 1.2 Help Commands 2 Commands 3 Open with sudo 4 Open on another computer

Keyboard Shortcuts

Movement

Keys	Action
C-a	Beginning of line
C-e	End of line
M-<	Beginning of file
M->	End of file

Help Commands

Keys	Action
C-h b	Show all key bindings
C-h k	Detailed description for the next key binding that is typed in

Commands

shell

Open with sudo

/sudo::/path/to/file

Open on another computer

/user@host.com:/path/to/file