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6.5.1 Navigation Keys—Arrow Keys Etc

Arrow keys move by character; can combine the arrow keys with the ‘<control>’ key to move by word.

• ‘<left>’, ‘C-<left>’
• ‘<right>’, ‘C-<right>’
• ‘<up>’, ‘C-<up>’
• ‘<down>’, ‘C-<down>’
• ‘<insert>’: activate ‘overwrite-mode’
• ‘<delete>’: delete character after point
• ‘<prior>’, ‘<next>’: Page-up, Page-down move by full page
• ‘<home>’, ‘<end>’: Move to beginning, end of line

Variable: next-screen-context-lines ¶

Variable controlling number of lines of continuity when scrolling by screenfuls; default is 2.

* Moving by Character

Command	Key Binding	Purpose
forward-char	‘C-f’	Forward character
backward-char	‘C-b’	Backward character
next-line	‘C-n’	Next (visual) line
previous-line	‘C-p’	Previous (visual) line
point		return the value of point
point-min		minimum possible value of point
point-max		maximum possible value of point
buffer-end		return the far-end position of buffer
buffer-size		return the number of characters in buffer
goto-char		Set point to ‘POS’
forward-char		Move point ‘COUNT’ chars foward
backward-char		Move point ‘COUNT’ chars backward
skip-chars-forward
skip-chars-backward