Hotkeys

The table below summarizes all hotkeys the IDE have or should have. This is a single source of truth that aims to avoid UX conflicts when the same shortcut handling is scattered across the code.

The table is sorted lexicographically by action keys.

Legend

• 🖥️ desktop IDE only
• 👻 developer’s version only
• 👍 works correctly
• 🐛 not works or works incorrectly
• 📌 native browser keystroke that should be preserved
• 😈 native browser keystroke that’s overriden

Hotkeys

Shortcut	Mode	Action	Done?
BKSPACE	Normal	Delete selected items	🐛
BKSPACE	Linking	Cancel linking	🐛
DEL	Normal	Delete selected items	🐛
DEL	Linking	Cancel linking	🐛
ESC	Normal	Select none
ESC	Linking	Cancel linking	👍
F1	Normal	😈 Open selected node’s help
F2	Normal	Focus & select all text of selected node’s label field
F11	Normal	📌 Toggle fullscreen	👍
SPACE	Normal	😈 Open node search dialog
Ctrl+PgDn	Normal	🖥️ Swith to next tab
Ctrl+PgUp	Normal	🖥️ Swith to previous tab
Ctrl+Shift+=		📌 Zoom in	👍
Ctrl+-		📌 Zoom out	👍
Ctrl+0		📌 Zoom to actual size	👍
Ctrl+[		📌 Navigate back through tabs
Ctrl+]		📌 Navigate forward through tabs
Ctrl+1,2,…,8	Normal	🖥️ Open n-th tab
Alt+1,2,…,8	Normal	🖥️ Open n-th tab
Ctrl+A	Normal	😈 Select all
Ctrl+C	Normal	😈 Copy a selection to the clipboard
Ctrl+E		📌 Search in URL bar	👍
H	Normal	Open selected node’s help
Ctrl+H	Normal	Toggle react dev tools (hide deeper?)	👍
I	Normal	Insert input terminal node
Ctrl+Shift+I	Normal	Toggle developer tools	👍
Ctrl+L		📌 Focus URL bar	👍
N	Normal	Repeat node insertion
Ctrl+N	Normal	🖥️ New patch	👍
O	Normal	Insert output terminal node
Ctrl+P	Normal	😈 Open current patch in a print-friendly representation
Ctrl+R	Normal	👻 Reload app contents	👍
Ctrl+S	Normal	😈 Save current patch
Ctrl+Shift+S	Normal	Save all (aka Save project)
Ctrl+Shift+T	Normal	🖥️ Unclose tab
Ctrl+U		📌 View page source	👍
Ctrl+V	Normal	Paste
Ctrl+W	Normal	🖥️ Close current tab
Ctrl+X	Normal	Cut a selection to the clipboard
Ctrl+Y	Normal	Redo	👍
Ctrl+Z	Normal	Undo	👍
Ctrl+Shift+Z	Normal	Redo	👍