This one’s short (ish?) and sweet. It describes how to make your own global key bindings for functions of your choice in Emacs.

1. Type “C-h b” in Emacs. This will bring up a list of all the current keybindings.
2. Type “C-s [KEYBINDING YOU WANT WRITTEN OUT]” to double check that the shortcut isn’t taken using search. For example to check that “C-c t” isn’t taken type “C-s C-c t”.
3. Modify your .emacs.d/init.el file like this

   1. ;; [USEFUL COMMENTS]

   2. (global-set-key (kbd "[KEYSTROKES WRITTEN OUT]") '[FUNCTION NAME])

For example to set C-c g to trigger goto-line:

1. ;; Define C-c g as a shortcut for goto-line.

2. (global-set-key (kbd "C-c g") 'goto-line)

That’s all there is to it. A little bit more about setting key binding in the GNU Emacs Manual.

If you want to use a key that you don’t know the code of simply press, “C-c h [KEY OF INTEREST]“. For example “C-c h [F5]” shows: ” is undefined”, so I would use (kbd “<f5>”)

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