Emacs's Keybinding Layout Diagram

Emacs Keybinding Layout (QWERTY)

Emacs Keybinding Layout, Dvorak

Emacs Keybinding Layout, Dvorak

Key Symbols

↑	previous-line	↓	next-line
←	backward-char	→	forward-char
←w	backward-word	→w	forward-word
←s	backward-sentence	→s	forward-sentence
←¶	backward-paragraph	→¶	forward-paragraph
⇤	move-beginning-of-line	⇥	move-end-of-line
↤▮	back-to-indentation
⇞	scroll-down (Page Up)	⇟	scroll-up (Page Down)
⤒	beginning-of-buffer	⤓	end-of-buffer
search←	isearch-backward	search→	isearch-forward

⌫	delete-backward-char	⌦	delete-char
⌫w	backward-kill-word	⌦w	kill-word
|⌫	kill-line-backward	⌦|	kill-line
⌦tochar	zap-to-char	⌦s	kill-sentence
⌦␣⌫	delete-horizontal-space

↩	newline
↩↑	open-line
↩↦cmt	indent-new-comment-line
⇥	tab-to-tab-stop (insert tab or spaces)
↦	indent-for-tab-command
#n	digit-argument
#-n	negative-argument
#arg	universal-argument
center▮↕	move-to-window-line
center↕	recenter
⇋	transpose-chars
⇋w	transpose-words
⎌	undo
copy	kill-ring-save
✂	kill-region
∅	nil
cancel	keyboard-quit
iconify	iconify-or-deiconify-frame
mark¶	mark-paragraph
paste	yank
paste↖	yank-pop
M-x	execute-extended-command

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Top Row Symbols

~ ∅ not-modified

` ∅ tmm-menubar

! ∅ shell-command

@ set-mark-command mark-word

# ∅ ∅

$ ∅ ispell-word

% ∅ query-replace

^ ∅ delete-indentation

& ∅ ∅

* ∅ pop-tag-mark

( ∅ insert-parentheses

) ∅ move-past-close-and-reindent

_ ∅ ∅

+ ∅ ∅

Function Keys

F1 help

F2 2C-two-columns

F3 kmacro-start-macro-or-insert-counter

F4 kmacro-end-or-call-macro

F5 ∅

F6 ∅

F7 ∅

F8 ∅

F9 ∅

F10 menu-bar-open

F11 toggle-frame-fullscreen

F12 ∅

No Ctrl nor Meta are defined with function keys by default.

Home/End Key Cluster

Ins overwrite-mode	Home ⇤	PgUp ⇞
Del ⌦	End ⇥	PgDn ⇟

Ins kill-ring-save ∅	Home |◀ |◀-other-window	PgUp scroll-right scroll-other-window-down
Del ⌦w ⌫w	End ▶| ▶|-other-window	PgDn scroll-left scroll-other-window

Arrow Key Cluster

	↑ ↑¶ ∅
← ←w ←w	↓ ↓¶ ∅	→ →w →w