Reference: keyboard

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# Reference: keyboard

> Complete list of the keys Turbo Python answers to, grouped by what has the focus.

Where two spellings exist, both work: the Turbo C one and the modern one.

## Global

Handled wherever the focus is, unless a dialog or the completion popup is open.

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `F1` | Describe the symbol under the cursor; with no file open, show the keyboard help |
| `F2` | Save |
| `F3` | Open |
| `F4` | New |
| `F6` | Next window |
| `F7` | Find next |
| `Shift-F7` | Find previous |
| `F8` | Open a terminal window |
| `F9` | Open the project tree |
| `F10` | Open the menu bar |
| `F12` | Go to definition |
| `Shift-F12` | Find references |
| `Ctrl-T` | Find a symbol anywhere in the project |
| `Ctrl-F` | Find |
| `Ctrl-G` | Go to line |
| `Ctrl-W` | Close the current window |
| `Alt-X` | Exit |
| `Alt-1` … `Alt-9` | Bring window 1…9 forward |
| `Alt-0` | List the open windows |
| `Alt-N` | Open the Snippets menu |
| `Alt-P` | Open the Python menu |
| `Alt-<letter>` | Open the menu whose title carries that letter |

A menu the project's tools file adds gets its letter assigned rather than fixed, so it is never one of the above. The rules are in [Python tools](python-tools.md#hot-keys).

## Editing

Handled by the window that has the focus.

### Movement

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `←` `→` `↑` `↓` | One character or one line |
| `Ctrl-←` `Ctrl-→` | Start of the previous / next word |
| `Home` `End` | Start / end of the line |
| `Ctrl-Home` `Ctrl-End` | Start / end of the file |
| `PgUp` `PgDn` | One screenful |
| `Shift` + any of the above | The same movement, extending the selection |

### Changing the text

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| any printable character | Insert it, replacing the selection |
| `Enter` | Split the line, copying the current line's indentation |
| `Backspace` | Delete the selection, or the character before the cursor |
| `Delete` | Delete the selection, or the character under the cursor |
| `Tab` | Insert a tab; with a selection, indent every line it touches |
| `Shift-Tab` | Remove one level of indentation from every line the selection touches |

### Clipboard and history

| Key | Also | Action |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `Ctrl-C` | `Ctrl-Ins` | Copy the selection |
| `Ctrl-X` | `Shift-Del` | Cut the selection |
| `Ctrl-V` | `Shift-Ins` | Paste |
| `Ctrl-A` | | Select the whole file |
| `Ctrl-Z` | | Undo |
| `Ctrl-R` | | Redo |
| `Ctrl-N` | | Insert a blank line above the cursor |
| `Ctrl-Y` | | Delete the line the cursor is on |

A run of typed characters, or a run of backspaces, is a **single** undo step. Moving the cursor ends the run.

### Language server

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `Ctrl-Space` | Ask for a completion list |
| `.` | Ask for a completion list, as a side effect of typing it |
| `F1` | Describe the symbol under the cursor |
| `F12` | Go to the declaration |

## Menu bar

Once a menu is open.

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `←` `→` | Previous / next menu |
| `↑` `↓` | Previous / next item, skipping separators and disabled items |
| `Enter` | Run the highlighted item |
| `<letter>` | Run the item whose label carries that letter |
| `Escape` | Close the menu |

An item marked `▶` opens a submenu instead of running:

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `→`, `Enter` | Open the highlighted submenu; `→` on an item without one moves to the next menu |
| `←` | Step back out to the parent menu |
| `Escape` | Close the whole menu, wherever you are |
| `↑` `↓` | Walk the submenu |
| `<letter>` | Run the submenu item whose label carries that letter |

Any other key is swallowed, so stray typing never reaches the file behind.

## Dialogs

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `Tab` / `Shift-Tab` | Next / previous control |
| `↑` `↓` | Walk the focused list; when the focused control has no use for them, the next / previous control |
| `Enter` | Press the default button, from wherever the focus is |
| `Escape` | Cancel |
| `Alt-<letter>` | Press the button whose label carries that letter |
| `Ctrl-U` | Clear the focused input field |

A dialog is modal: every key it does not use is swallowed rather than passed to the editor behind it.

### The Open and Save As box

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Focus on opening | The **Name** field, so a name can be typed straight away. The first `↓` therefore moves the focus to the list; the second moves the highlight. |
| Moving the highlight | Puts that entry's name into the **Name** field, so the field always says what **OK** will act on. Highlighting `../` clears it. |
| `Enter` on the list | Opens the highlighted file, or browses into the highlighted directory |
| **OK** | Acts on the **Name** field; when the field is empty, acts on whatever the list has highlighted |
| A name that is a directory | Browses into it rather than closing the dialog |
| Double click | The same as `Enter` on that entry |

Dot-files are not listed. Directories come before files, each group sorted, with `../` first.

## Completion popup

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `↑` `↓` | Previous / next suggestion |
| `PgUp` `PgDn` | Eight at a time |
| `Enter`, `Tab` | Accept the highlighted suggestion |
| `Escape` | Dismiss the list |
| any printable character | Passed through to the editor; the list narrows to what still matches |

## Terminal windows

A terminal window in front gets **every key except** the function keys, `Alt-X` and `Alt-0`…`Alt-9`, which stay with the editor so there is always a way out of a full-screen program. `Ctrl-C`, `Ctrl-W`, `Ctrl-F` and `Alt-<letter>` therefore reach the shell rather than the editor.

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `Shift-PgUp` `Shift-PgDn` | Read back / forward one screenful through the history |
| anything else not reserved above | Sent to the shell, returning the view to the live screen |

The exact byte each key sends is in [Terminal windows](terminal.md).

## Project tree

Handled when the tree window has the focus. The full rules are in [Project tree](project-tree.md).

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `↑` `↓` `PgUp` `PgDn` `Home` `End` | Move the highlight |
| `→` | Expand a closed directory, else step to the next row |
| `←` | Collapse an open directory, else step out to its directory |
| `Enter` | Open a file; expand or collapse a directory |
| `F5`, `Ctrl-R` | Re-read the project |

## Mouse

| Action | Effect |
| --- | --- |
| Click in the text | Place the cursor |
| Drag in the text | Select |
| Wheel | Scroll three lines |
| Click a menu title | Open or close that menu |
| Click a status-bar hint | Run it |
| Click a window | Bring it forward |
| Drag a title bar | Move the window |
| Drag the bottom-right corner | Resize the window |
| Click `[x]` | Close the window |
| Click `[■]` | Fill the desktop with the window |
| Click `[▬]` | Put a filled window back where it was |
| Wheel over a terminal | Scroll three lines through its history |
| Click a tree row | Highlight it; a second click opens it |