Emacs cheat sheet that lists equivalents to everyday vim commands

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Published on 2010-05-16T23:41:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 23:50 UTC
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There were two things that I want to know how to do in Emacs (23.2, *nix):

Go to the first character after indentation in a line
Go to the first character that's the equivalent to a given character (an equivalent to vim's fx command that goes forward until it hits the x character; maybe C-s (incremental search) is the best way to do this)

But, I think it would be better if I had a cheat sheet that listed navigational bindings. Maybe Emacs (self-documenting) can do this on it's own. Is there a list of commands that are equivalent to vim's default commands anywhere? How about a list of navigational key-bindings in Emacs?

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