Shortcuts
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This page is part of the Getting Started Section. It lists keyboard shortcuts available in the GUI of BaseX.
Global Shortcuts
The following shortcuts are available in all views and from some dialog windows:
| Description | Win/Linux | Mac |
| Jump to input bar | Ctrl L F6 |
⌘ L ⌘ F6 |
| Jump to next panel | Ctrl Tab | |
| Jump to previous panel | Ctrl Shift Tab |
Text Editor
The text editor can be used to create, edit and save XQuery expressions, XML documents and any other text-based files. It provides numerous shortcuts, which are listed below. If a key combinations differs on Mac computers, it is displayed in the third column.
| Description | Win/Linux | Mac |
| Move one character to the left/right | ←/→ | |
| Move one word to the left/right | Ctrl ←/→ | Alt ←/→ |
| Move to beginning/end of line | Home/End | ⌘ ←/→ |
| Move one line up/down | ↑/↓ | |
| Move one screen-full up/down | Page ↑/↓ | |
| Move to top/bottom | Ctrl Home/End | ⌘ ↑/↓ |
| Scroll one line up/down | Ctrl ↑/↓ | Alt ↑/↓ |
Find
| Description | Win/Linux | Mac |
| Find text | Ctrl F | ⌘ F |
| Find next instance of text | Ctrl G F3 |
⌘ G ⌘ F3 |
| Find previous instance of text | Ctrl Shift G Shift F3 |
⌘ Shift G ⌘ Shift F3 |
Editing
| Description | Win/Linux | Mac |
| Undo recent changes | Ctrl Z | ⌘ Z |
| Redo recent changes | Ctrl Y | ⌘ Shift Z |
| Cut selection | Ctrl X Ctrl Delete |
⌘ X |
| Copy selection to clipboard | Ctrl C Ctrl Insert |
⌘ C |
| Paste from clipboard | Ctrl V Shift Insert |
⌘ V |
| Select All | Ctrl A | ⌘ A |
| Delete character left of cursor | Backspace | |
| Delete character right of cursor | Delete | |
| Delete word left of cursor | Ctrl Backspace | Alt Backspace |
| Delete word right of cursor | Ctrl Delete | Alt Delete |
| Delete text left of cursor | Ctrl Shift Backspace | ⌘ Backspace |
| Delete text right of cursor | Ctrl Shift Delete | ⌘ Delete |
| (Un)comment selection/line | Ctrl M | ⌘ M |
| Execute query | Ctrl Enter | ⌘ Enter |
