All the other Emacs cheat sheets are too exhaustive and cumbersome. This is for people who just need to get in, make a few edits, and get out. This is not intended to be a guide for the power user or developers.
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Emacs Key
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Name
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OSX
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M
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Meta
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Alt - ⌥
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C
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Control
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Ctrl
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s
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Special
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Command - ⌘
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S
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Shift
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Shift
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C-x C-f
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Open file
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C-x C-s
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Save file
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C-x C-b
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Show buffer list
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C-s
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Search forward
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C-r
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Search backward
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C-v
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Scroll down
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M-v
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Scroll up
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C-w
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Cut
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M-w
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Copy
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C-y
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Yank (Paste)
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C-k
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Delete from cursor to line ending
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M-k
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Delete sentence
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ESC ESC ESC
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Back out of any command
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C-g
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Stop current command (immediately)
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C-x C-c
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Close Emacs
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C-z
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Put Emacs in background mode
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fg
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(from command line) return Emacs to foreground mode
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