Common commands for the Diakonos text editor. (http://purepistos.net/diakonos) This guide is available at http://wiki.purepistos.net/doku.php?id=Diakonos:Getting-Started Movement Arrow Keys Cursor Movement Home, End Move cursor to beginning or end of current line Page Up/Down Pitch buffer view by one screenful of text Alt-Up/Down Scroll up, down Editor Control Ctrl-Q Quit F1 List key bindings F12 Edit user's configuration file Alt-M Start/stop macro recording F4 Play macro F6 Repeat last command File/Buffer Control Ctrl-O Open a file Ctrl-S Save current buffer Alt-S Save current buffer to specific filename Ctrl-W Close current buffer Ctrl-N Create new empty buffer Alt-Shift-T Specify buffer content type Alt-1 to 9 Switch among first 9 buffers Alt-minus/= Switch buffers Ctrl-Z Undo Ctrl-Y Redo Clipboard Ctrl-space Anchor selection (like emacs) Ctrl-C Copy selection to clipboard Ctrl-X Copy selection to clipboard and delete (i.e. cut) Ctrl-V Pase clipboard text Alt-U Unselect (stop selecting) Ctrl-K Cut current line (can collect multiple lines) Searching Ctrl-F Find Ctrl-Alt-F Find upwards F3 Find again Shift-F3 Find again upwards Ctrl-R Search and replace Ctrl-Alt-U Clear match highlight
cheat sheets.
$ cheat diakonos( add new | see all )
- updated sheets

- boyfriend
- girlfriend
- loose_weight
- nils
- administrateme
- okay
- bartleby
- xpath
- readme
- git
- sprintf
- shoulda
- nonsense
- lucene_query_syntax
- rspec
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