features

Keyboard Shortcuts

Cream keyboard shortcuts provide quick access to many of the important feature list items also available from menus. See the KEYBOARD.txt file for a card you can place over your keyboard's function keys for quick help.

Menus
Alt+(underlined menu char)	(open menu)
(arrow keys)	Move menu selection
Basic File Operations
Ctrl+O	File Open
Ctrl+S	Save File (update only)
Ctrl+N	New File
Ctrl+F4	Close File
Alt+F4	Exit
Basic Moving
(arrow keys)	Move cursor around the screen by character
Home / End	Move cursor to the beginning / end of a line (Home goes to screen line beginning, then toggles between real line beginning and first character)
PageUp / PageDown	Scroll screen contents upwards / downward by page
Ctrl+ArrowUp / ArrowDown	Scroll screen upwards / downwards by line
Ctrl+PageUp / PageDown	Move cursor to screen top / bottom without scrolling
Ctrl+Alt+PageUp / PageDown	Move cursor to screen middle without scrolling
Ctrl+Home / End	Move to the top / bottom of the document
Basic Selection
Shift+ArrowLeft / Right	Select text, by character
Shift+ArrowUp / Down	Select text, by line up / down
Shift+Home / End	Select text, to beginning / end of line
Shift+PageUp / PageDown	Select text, to top / bottom of screen
Ctrl+Shift+ArrowLeft / Right	Select text, by word left / right
Ctrl+Shift+ArrowUp / Down	Move to top / bottom of selection
Ctrl+Shift+Home / End	Select text, to beginning / end of document
Ctrl+A	Select text, all
Shift+LeftMouse	Select text, from cursor to click position
Basic Editing
Backspace	Delete character behind cursor
Shift+Backspace	Delete word behind cursor
Ctrl+Backspace	Delete word behind cursor
Ctrl+Z	Undo
Ctrl+Y	Redo
Ctrl+X (selection)	Cut
Ctrl+C (selection)	Copy
Ctrl+V (selection)	Paste
Ctrl+F	Find (dialog)
Ctrl+H	Find/Replace (dialog)
Ctrl+G	Go to line number or % of file (dialog) (Unix may also need Shift)
Ctrl+W	Word Wrap (toggle)
Ctrl+E	Auto Wrap (toggle)
Ctrl+Q	Quick Wrap existing un-wrapped paragraph (select for multiple paragraphs)
Ctrl+Q (x2)	Quick Wrap (as above) except multiple spaces are also reduced to one. (Good for reformating and re-justifying at the same time.)
Alt+Q (x2)	Quick Un-Wrap existing wrapped paragraph (select for multiple paragraphs)
Tab (selection)	Indent text
Shift+Tab (selection)	Un-indent text
Window/File Navigation
Ctrl+Tab	Window Next (multiple) / File Next Open (single)
Ctrl+Shift+Tab	Window Previous (multiple) / File Previous Open (single)
Advanced Functions
F1	Help
Ctrl+F1	Help, specific topic
Alt+F1	Help, list related topics
Alt+F2	Bookmark, set (toggle on/off)
F2	Bookmark, next
Shift+F2	Bookmark, previous
Alt+Shift+F2	Bookmark, clear all
F3	Find next word under cursor
Shift+F3	Find previous word under cursor
Alt+F3	Find next word under cursor, case sensitive
Alt+Shift+F3	Find previous word under cursor, case sensitive
F4	Show "invisible" characters
Shift+F4, character	Insert character line (length of Wrap Width)
Shift+F4 (x2), character	Insert character line (length of line above)
Ctrl+F4	Close File
Alt+F4	Exit Program
F5	Capitalize, Title Case (current word or selection)
Shift+F5	Capitalize, UPPERCASE (current word or selection)
Alt+F5	Capitalize, lowercase (current word or selection)
Ctrl+F5	Capitalize, rEVERSE cASE (current word or selection)
F6	Comment (current line or selection)
Shift+F6	Uncomment (current line or sselection)
F7	Spell check, next error
Shift+F7	Spell check, previous error
Alt+F7	Spell check, show errors (toggle)
Ctrl+F7	Spell check, add word under cursor to user dictionary
F8	Macro Play
Shift+F8	Macro Record
F9	Folds, open/close (toggle)
F9 (with text selected)	Folds, set
Ctrl+F9	Folds, open all
Ctrl+Shift+F9	Folds, close all
Alt+F9	Folds, clear at cursor
Alt+Shift+F9	Folds, clear all
F10	(un-mapped, reserved)
F11	Date/Time insert (opens menu)
F11 (x2)	Date/Time insert (last format used)
Ctrl+F11	Calendar (toggle)
F12 and combinations	(reserved for user-defined Add-on mappings)
Insert Character By Values
Alt+, {number}	Insert character by decimal value
Ctrl+K {two characters}	Insert character by digraph (See Insert menu for listing)
Column Mode
Alt+Shift+{motion key}	Column mode
Alt+Shift+LeftMouse	Column mode, select from cursor position to click position
Esc, {motion}, or Left Mouse click	Exits column mode
Completion
Ctrl+Space	Word completion, Search backward
Ctrl+Shift+Space	Word completion, Search forward
Ctrl+Enter	Omni completion (list forward)
Ctrl+Shift+Enter	Omni completion (list backward)
Esc+Space	Template completion (see Tools menu for listing)
Terminal Menus
F12 (Terminal only)	Console menu (Esc twice to exit)
Information
Alt+.	Values of character under cursor
Alt+(	Information/prototype pop up menu
Tag Navigation (requires a working installation of exuberant ctags)
Alt+ArrowDown	Go to tag under cursor
Alt+ArrowUp	Close reference and return
Alt+ArrowLeft/ArrowRight	Navigate backwards and forward between visited tags
Ctrl+Alt+ArrowDown	Toggles Taglist for current file
File/Link Navigation in Text
Shift+Enter	Open a file matching selection or text under cursor Open a URL matching selection or text under cursor in browser
Vim's Normal Mode
Ctrl+L	Vim's "Normal mode" (Esc to exit)
Ctrl+B	Vim's "Normal mode", single command (Esc to exit)
Ctrl+\,Ctrl+N	Vim's "Normal mode", alternate (Esc to exit)