Essential Structured Navigation and Editing Commands (opens in new tab)

Most of us learn Emacs one motion at a time – C-f for a character, M-f for a word, C-n for a line. Useful, but those commands don’t know anything about the structure of your code. Emacs has a whole other family of commands that operate on balanced expressions and definitions instead, and once they become muscle memory they’re hard to give up. Lisp hackers know these commands intimately – they’re the foundation paredit builds on. What’s less appreciated is that they work in plenty of other lan...