Keys and Shortcuts in the Editor

Documentation / Contents - Menu & Shortcuts

• Overview of Menu & Shortcuts
  • Two Pages, Two Files
  • Who Is In Charge
• Editing the Desktop Menu
  • Reading the Tree
  • Changing a Label or a Command
  • Adding Items, Submenus and Separators
  • Deleting and Reordering
  • Reload File
• Editing Shortcuts
  • The Action List
  • The Inspector
• Setting a Shortcut
  • Arming the Capture
  • When a Chord Is Already Taken
  • Clear and Reset Default
  • Reset All Defaults
• The Action Catalog
  • Window
  • Desktop
  • Tiling
  • Session
  • Launchers
• Where the Settings Live
  • The Shortcuts File
  • The Menu File
  • The Legacy Keys File
• The Status Line
• Keys and Shortcuts in the Editor
• Copyright Information

Keys and Shortcuts in the Editor

These are the keys that work inside the Menu & Shortcuts window itself. They are not the shortcuts you are editing; for those see The Action Catalog.

Everywhere in the Window

Tab           Move the focus to the next control
Shift+Tab     Move the focus to the previous control
Space         Press the button that has the focus
Arrow keys    Move within a list or a group of buttons

On the Desktop Menu Page

Enter    Commit the Label or Command field you are editing

Moving the focus out of a field commits it too, so clicking somewhere else saves your edit rather than losing it.

While Capturing a Shortcut

Escape       Cancel the capture, change nothing
any chord    Bind that chord to the selected action

Pressing Set Shortcut... a second time also cancels. Modifier keys pressed on their own are ignored, so you can settle your fingers before the key that counts. See Setting a Shortcut.

What Is Deliberately Not Here

The editor has no keyboard shortcuts of its own for Add, Delete or Reset. Those are buttons, and the destructive ones ask before they act. A one-key path to Delete or to Reset All Defaults would be a way to lose a menu by accident.

Buttons Along the Bottom

Help     open this book
Close    dismiss the panel

Close commits a pending field edit first. There is nothing else to save; every other change was written when you made it. See Overview of Menu & Shortcuts.