KeyBindings

General

Wikidpad is installed with a number of predefined key bindings or "shortcut keys", as listed below. Many of these key bindings may be changed.

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Default setting

Workspace

General

Ctrl-Shift-T	show / hide toolbar
Ctrl-T	show / hide main tree
F6	switch cursor between main tree and page window

Page window

Ctrl-+	zoom in
Ctrl--	zoom out
Ctrl-Tab	switch between tabbed pages
Ctrl-Shift-A	switch current tab to edit mode
Ctrl-Shift-S	switch current tab to preview mode
Ctrl-Shift-Space	switch current tab between edit and preview mode
Ctrl-F4	close current tab

Editor

Ctrl-Z	Undo
Ctrl-Y	Redo
Ctrl-X	Cut
Ctrl-C	Copy
Ctrl-Alt-C	Copy to scratchPad
Ctrl-V	Paste

Ctrl-B	make bold
Ctrl-I	make italic
Ctrl-Alt-H	make heading
Ctrl-Alt-D	insert current date/time
Ctrl-W	rewrap text at position

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Wiki

Wiki Control

Ctrl-N	open new Wiki
Ctrl-Alt-O	open existing Wiki
Ctrl-P	print current Wiki

Wiki page

Ctrl-Alt-R	rename current page
Ctrl-S	save current page
Ctrl-D	delete current page
Ctrl-Shift-Q	set current page as Root page
Ctrl-Shift-UP	show parentless pages

Ctrl-Shift-R	Create new page from selected text
Ctrl-J	Create page link from selected text
Ctrl-Space	Auto complete link (or attribute)

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Navigation

Page

Home	goto start of line
End	goto end of line
Ctrl-left	goto previous word in text
Ctrl-right	goto next word in text
Ctrl-Home	goto top of page
Ctrl-End	goto bottom of page
Page up	scroll screen up
Page down	scroll screen down

Page links

Ctrl-L	open linked page
Ctrl-Enter	open linked page
Ctrl-ALT-L	open linked page in a new tab
Ctrl-O	open page
Ctrl-Q	goto Root page (Home)
Ctrl-Shift-H	goto Root page (on MAC)

History

Ctrl-H	show history
Ctrl-Alt-UP	show history, select -1
Ctrl-Alt-DOWN	show history, select +1
Alt-Left	go back in history
Alt-Right	go forward in history

Relatives

Ctrl-Up	show parents of current word
Ctrl-Down	show children of current word

Bookmarks

Ctrl-Alt-B	add a bookmark
Ctrl-Shift-B	show bookmarks

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Search

Wiki

Ctrl-Alt-F

start full search

Wiki page

Ctrl-F	start incremental search, perform next search
F3	start incremental search, perform next search
Shift-F3	incremental search, perform next search, backward
Ctrl-R	start find & replace

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Scripts

Ctrl-E	execute all eval scripts
Ctrl-1 > 6	execute numbered eval script

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Change key bindings

General

The default key bindings can be overridden by creating a custom "keybindings.py" file. To do so, copy the existing file:

Create the directory if it doesn't exist. Then edit user_extensions / keybindings.py with a standard text editor to override the default key bindings. This file will not be touched when upgrading wikidPad.

In principle you should remove all the entries from the new keybindings.py, that should keep the default setting and only maintain the entries for those keybindings that you want changed. On startup WikidPad will read both files in the order:

extensions / keybindings.py
user_extensions / keybindings.py

and override any settings in extensions/keybindings.py with those found in user_extensions/keybindings.py. The import statement at the top of the extensions file does not have to be retained in the user_extensions file. The same is true for a number of editor scripts at the bottom of the file.

Keybinding format

The general entry for a keybinding is of the format:

ShowTreeControl="Ctrl-T"

If you would rather use Alt+T for that function, then change the entry to

ShowTreeControl="Alt-T"

Don't forget to save the file and restart wikidpad to make use of the new keybindings.

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