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The most commonly used function key bindings

The following table lists the most commonly used of the template key bindings.  

Function Key Bindings for Some Common Commands
C- is the Control key, M- is the Meta ($\Diamond$ on it ) key, and S- is the shift key.
Epoch Description Meta-x Function Emacs
F1 Help Control-h C-h
S-F1 Check spelling of region interactively ispell-region C-x C-r I
F2 LaTeX prefix key Control-c C-c
C-F2 Run xdvi on current filename.dvi tex-view-file N/A
  (after compiling with M-F2)    
M-F2 Run tex/latex on buffer teX-buffer C-c C-b
S-F2 Run tex/latex on region TeX-region C-c C-r
F3 Switch buffer in current window switch-to-buffer C-x b
C-F3 Rename current buffer rename-buffer C-x N
M-F3 Kill current buffer kill-buffer C-x k
F5 Yank last block of killed text yank C-y
C-F5 Replace last yank with a previous kill yank-pop M-y
F6 Search forward for specific text search-forward N/A
C-F6 Search backward for specific text search-backward N/A
M-F6 Goto given line number goto-line M-=
F7 Query to replace specific strings query-replace M-%
F8 Kill entire line (accepts prefix arg) kill-line-full M-K
C-F8 Kill marked region kill-region C-w
F9 Toggle between one and two windows one-window-or-two C-x 3
C-F9 Same as F9, windows split vertically one-window-or-two-horizontal C-x 6
F10 Rotate buffer (in 2nd window if there) bury-buffer-other-window C-x 4 B
C-F10 Display buffer menu. buffer-menu C-x 4 C-b
F11 Load a file for editing find-file C-x C-f
C-F11 Insert a file into buffer at point insert-file C-x i
F12 Save buffer in visited file save-buffer C-x C-s
C-F12 Write buffer into file write-file C-x C-w
M-F12 Save modified buffers (interactively) save-some-buffers C-x s


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