Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition

Table E-4. Text filling and reformatting commands

Table E-4. Text filling and reformatting commands (Chapter 2)

Keystrokes	Command name	Action
(none) Options → Word Wrap in Text Modes	auto-fill-mode	Toggle auto-fill mode, in which Emacs formats paragraphs as you type them.
M-q	fill-paragraph	Reformat paragraph.
(none) Edit → Fill	fill-region	Reformat individual paragraphs within a region.

Table E-5. Stopping and undoing commands

Table E-5. Stopping and undoing commands (Chapter 2)

Keystrokes	Command name	Action
C-g	keyboard-quit	Abort current command.
C-x u	advertised-undo	Undo last edit (can be done repeatedly).
C-_ Edit → Undo	undo	Undo last edit.
(none)	revert-buffer	Restore buffer to the state it was in when the file was last saved (or auto-saved).

Table E-6. Search and replace commands

Table E-6. Search and replace commands (Chapter 3)

Keystrokes	Command name	Action
C-s Edit → Search → Incremental Search → Forward String	isearch-forward	Start incremental search forward; follow by search string. Also, find next occurrence (forward) of search string.
C-r Edit → Search → Incremental Search → Backward String	isearch-backward	Start incremental search backward; follow by search string. Also, find next occurrence (backward) of search string.

Table E-7. Regular expression search commands

Table E-7. Regular expression search commands (Chapter 3)

Keystrokes	Command name	Action
C-M-s Enter Edit → Search → Regexp Forward	re-search-forward	Search for a regular expression forward.
C-M-r Enter Edit → Search → Regexp Backwards	re-search-backward	Search for a regular expression backward.
C-M-s Edit → Search → Incremental Search → Forward Regexp	isearch-forward-regexp	Search incrementally forward for a regular expression.
C-M-r Edit → Search → Incremental Search → Backward Regexp	isearch-backward-regexp	Search incrementally backward for a regular expression.
C-M-% Edit → Replace → Replace Regexp	query-replace-regexp	Query-replace a regular expression.