I was wondering if besides the basic navigation commands:
C-p : Jump backwards one line.
C-n : Jump forward one line.
C-v : Jump forward one full screen.
M-v : Jump backwards one full screen.
M-a : Go to the previous paragraph beginnings.
M-e : Go to the next paragraph end.
M-g g: Jump to a specific line
emacs provides any commands to easily scroll thousands or millions of lines.
More specifically, I am looking for example for a command that I could use to move forward (or backwards) 1%
of the file (maybe a command that can be combined with C-u
and can be used to scroll an arbitrary %
of the file?)
Best Answer
The commands
beginning-of-buffer
(C-home
orM-<
) andend-of-buffer
(C-end
orM->
) take a numeric argument. If the argument is N, then the command takes you N/10 of the way. (With some rounding: these commands take you to the beginning of a line.) For example,M-1 M->
goes to the 90% position in the buffer, i.e. around line 900000 in a million-line buffer.For more precise control, you can scroll to the end, note the line number, and use
M-g g
(goto-line
) to reach a particular line number, e.g.ESC 9 0 0 0 ESC g g
to go to line 9000.