The Basics of Emacs as a Text Editor

In this video, I'm going to quickly go through some of the basics of using Emacs, the text editor!

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Some of the commands I will go over include:
(1) Opening Documents
C-x C-f for find file
You can type full path to a file or create a new document.
You could also just open the path to a directory and find the file.
(2) C-x C-+, C-x C-- For Zoom In/Out
(3) Basic Navigation
C-n, C-p, C-f, C-b
M-f, M-b (forward/back by words)
C-a, C-e (beginning/end of line)
M-a, M-e (backwards/forwards by sentence)
M-{, M-} (backwards/forwards by paragraph)
M-"LESS THAN", M-"GREATER THAN" (beginning/end of file)
M-g g (goto line number)
ESC-number C-n/p/f/b (perform motion that number of times)
(4) Cut, Copy and Paste
C-space to select text to copy/cut
C-w cut highlighted
M-w copy highlighted
C-y paste
C-k cut to end of line?
C-x backspace, M-k (backwards/forwards delete the current line)
M-z character cuts to that character
ESC-number ESC-d deletes that number of words
C-x u undo
C-h v kill-ring
C-x 0 to close the kill-ring window
C-y Esc-y to cycle through kill-ring for paste
(4) Buffers
C-x b select another buffer
C-x C-b list all buffers
C-x k kill a buffer
(5) Case change
M-c capitalizes a word
M-u uppercase word
M-l lowercase word
(6) Spell Check
M-$ check current word
sudo pacman -S aspell-en (for Arch users)
(7) Query replace M-% (shift-5)
Will only look forward in the file!
RET exits the query replace
(8) Search
C-s to search forward
C-r to search backward
(9) Splits
C-x 2 Horizontal Split
C-x 3 Vertical Split
C-x 0 Close window
C-x 4f Opens file in other window
C-x o moves cursor to next frame
(10) Save and Exit
C-x C-s Save
C-x C-c Quit