Moving the Cursor

The following table lists the basic cursor movement commands in Info. Each entry consists of the key sequence you should type to execute the cursor movement, the M-x(2) command name (displayed in parentheses), and a short description of what the command does. All of the cursor motion commands can take an numeric argument (see section Miscellaneous Commands), to find out how to supply them. With a numeric argument, the motion commands are simply executed that many times; for example, a numeric argument of 4 given to next-line causes the cursor to move down 4 lines. With a negative numeric argument, the motion is reversed; an argument of -4 given to the next-line command would cause the cursor to move up 4 lines.

C-n (next-line)

Moves the cursor down to the next line.

C-p (prev-line)

Move the cursor up to the previous line.

C-a (beginning-of-line)

Move the cursor to the start of the current line.

C-e (end-of-line)

Moves the cursor to the end of the current line.

C-f (forward-char)

Move the cursor forward a character.

C-b (backward-char)

Move the cursor backward a character.

M-f (forward-word)

Moves the cursor forward a word.

M-b (backward-word)

Moves the cursor backward a word.

M-< (beginning-of-node)

b

Moves the cursor to the start of the current node.

M-> (end-of-node)

Moves the cursor to the end of the current node.

M-r (move-to-window-line)

Moves the cursor to a specific line of the window. Without a numeric argument, M-r moves the cursor to the start of the line in the center of the window. With a numeric argument of n, M-r moves the cursor to the start of the nth line in the window.