3 Motion

The traditional commands for Emacs¹ and Emacs's C mode² are supported in PHP mode. The following commands are notable to mention for working with PHP or are extensions expressly provided PHP mode.

C-M-f

Move forward past the current syntax (forward-sexp). If point is in a string literal, move to the end of the string. If point is at the beginning of a parenthetical expression, move to the end of it. If at the beginning of statement block that is surrounded by braces, move to the end of the block. If point is at an identifier, skip to the end of it.

C-M-b

Same as C-M-f, except a syntactic element move to its beginning (backward-sexp).

C-M-a

Move point to the beginning of the top-level function definition (c-beginning-of-defun).

C-M-e

Move point to the end of the top-level function definition (c-end-of-defun).

C-M-<HOME>

Move point to the beginning of the current function (beginning-of-defun).

C-M-<END>

Move point to the end of the current function (end-of-defun).

M-m

Move to the indentation at the beginning of the line (back-to-indentation).

C-c C-w

Enable word motion across mixed case identifiers with forward-word and backward-word commands (c-subword-mode).