Emacs Shortcuts for Evil and Doom Emacs

Evil

See Evil key bindings map - Evil Emacs package

Name	Shortcut
Complete (autocomplete) next or previous (insert mode)	C-n or C-p
Digraph: insert	:evil-insert-digraph
Digraphs, show digraphs to sequences	:evil-ex-show-digraphs
Enter and Exit Emacs Mode (close to default Emacs)	C-z
Go to char using Avy	g s s (char), g s / (timer)
Go, to lower case (evil-downcase), downcase selection	g u , u
Go, to upper case (evil-upcase), upcase selection	g U , U
Go, to file under cursor at point	g f
Go, to file under cursor at point, with line	g F, evil-find-file-at-point-with-line
Navigation, previous/next paragraph/section	{, }
Navigation, previous/next sentence	(, )
Record macro (command mode)	q + <register like a>
Replace macro	F4
Window move up, down, left, right	C-w + arrow keys

See Vim Shortcuts - Vim Shortcuts which are mostly implemented in Evil and for explanation of terms.

For “Go, to file under cursor at point, with line”, an example is using gF on text like myfile.txt:42 where 42 is the line number to go to

Doom Emacs

See main key bindings at: ”~/.config/emacs/modules/config/default/+evil-bindings.el” or Evil Bindings - Doom Emacs

and ”~/.config/emacs/modules/config/default/+emacs-bindings.el” Emacs Bindings - Doom Emacs

Name	Shortcut
Action, context aware 1	SPC a, embark-act, embark-dwim
Back, error	[ e
Back, section	[[
Bookmarks	SPC Enter
Browse url of file, open in browser	SPC o b
Buffer, delete buffer	SPC b d
Buffer, open scratch buffer	SPC x
Code actions, Jump to definition (like Vim gd)	SPC c d or gd
Code actions, Jump to reference (like Vim gr)	SPC c D
Code actions / LSP	SPC c a
Code actions, quickfix, list errors, problems, flycheck	SPC c x
Command, M-x	SPC :
Completion, cape, dictionary	C-x s
Completion, dabbrev	C-x C-n
Completion, file	C-x C-f
Completion, go down 1 choice	C-j
Completion, go up 1 choice	C-k
Completion, keyword	C-x C-k
Completion, snippet	C-x C-s
Dired, down directory or open file	l
Dired, edit with wdired	i
Dired, edit with wdired, save changes	:w or C-c
Dired, open marked files with external program	W, dired-do-open
Dired, up directory	h
Documentation, Look up or Web search on selection	K
eww, back URL	H or [[
eww, bookmark	m
eww, bookmark add	m
eww, download	d
eww, eww-readable, see readable part of web page	r
eww, forward URL	L or ]]
eww, go to bookmark	gb
eww, go to bookmark, quit	q
eww, jump to visible link	SPC s l
eww, list eww buffers	gt
eww, open URL	o
eww, quit	q
eww, URL, copy current URL	yy
eww, Z menu: text decrease, increase	zj, zk
Exit insert mode	Esc or jk
Format, region or buffer	+format/region or +format/buffer
Git Time Machine, mode	SPC t g
Git Time Machine, mode, leader prefix	g t
Git Time Machine, mode, show commit	SPC t c
Git Time Machine, previous and next revision	C-j, C-k
Go to, Avy : go to char2	g s s
Go to, Avy : go to timer	g s /
Go to, element Declaration	g D
Go to, element definition	g d
Go to, element Implementation	g I
Go to file or url at point	g f
Go to, open file in separate buffer and split	C-w f
Help: Doom, Doom Modules	SPC h d m
Insert, Search Evil Register	SPC i r
Insert, Snippet	SPC i s
Leader key while in insert mode	M-SPC
LSP, Restart workspace and server	lsp-workspace-restart
LSP, Update all servers installed	lsp-update-servers
Magit	SPC g g
Magit, Log, see commit log of file (like VS Code git history)	SPC g L or magit-log-buffer-file
Next buffer	C-x right arrow
Next, error	] e
Org: Insert subheading (org-insert-subheading)	C-m Enter
Org: Link insert (org-insert-link)	SPC m l l
Org: Link store (org-store-link)	SPC n l
proced: sort leader key	o
Project: Search	SPC /
Project - switch and open new workspace	SPC p p
Search - 2 char, next match or go into avy	; or C-;
Search - 2 char, normal mode	s
Search - bookmark list	SPC s m
Search - buffer	SPC s s
Search - imenu	SPC s i
Search - jump list	SPC s j
Search - mark (Evil) list	SPC s r
Section or heading, previous or next	double [ or ]]
Spelling, suggest correct spelling of word	z =, ispell-word
Switch Buffer	SPC ,
Tags: projectile find tag	C-t
Terminal, Open in cwd full screen (vterm) terminal	SPC o T
Terminal, Toggle (vterm) terminal popup (bottom screen)	SPC o t
Toggle: line numbers: absolute, relative, none	SPC t l or doom/toggle-line-numbers
Toggle: pop up like help, terminal	C-`
Workspace (tab): Close	SPC tab d
Workspace (tab): Close session, work spaces, buffers	SPC tab x
Workspace (tab): List tabs	SPC Tab Tab
Workspace (tab): New	C-t
Workspace (tab): Next	gt
Workspace (tab): Select workspace number	M-<number> like M-1
Z menu for folding, screen movement	z
Z menu: kill current buffer	zx
Z menu: org-mode toggle inline images	zi

For documentation look up K, good minibuffer items are language specific docs, devdocs.io, and web search.

For completions, shortcuts are implemented similarly to completion section of Vim Shortcuts - Vim Shortcuts and complete the same kind of items.

Item Navigation with [ and ] (Unimpaired Mode)

Description	Shortcut
Next, previous item	[ <item>] <item>
Buffer	[b, ]b
Function	[f, ]f
Spelling: misspelled word	[s, ]s

Command Mode

Name	Shortcut
GBrowse, Opens local file in browser in upstream like GitHub/Lab for local file	:gbrowse

Footnotes

1. Common actions are:

   • Jump to definition in code
   • Evaluate expressions
   • Mark org headings as done or other
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