Shortcuts

This page presents the most important hotkeys available in the visual frontend.

Editor

Code Completions

The GUI editor provides various code completions, which simplify the authoring of complex XQuery applications. Opening elements, comments, quotes or brackets will automatically be closed, and new lines will automatically be indented.

If some characters have been entered, and if the shortcut for code completions is pressed (Ctrl Space), a popup menu will appear and provide some code templates. If only one completion is possible, it will automatically be inserted.

Editor Shortcuts

The text editor can be used to create, edit, save and execute XQuery expressions, XML documents and any other textual files.

Description Win/Linux Mac Query Execution Execute query Ctrl Enter ⌘ Enter Stop query Shift Escape Shift Escape Execute XQUnit tests Ctrl Shift Enter ⌘ Shift Enter Edit external variables Ctrl Shift E ⌘ Shift E Result indentation on/off Ctrl Shift I ⌘ Shift I Custom Editing Perform Code Completions Ctrl Space Ctrl Space Sort lines Ctrl U ⌘ U (Un)comment selection/line Ctrl K ⌘ K Delete line(s) Ctrl Shift D ⌘ Shift D Duplicate line(s) Ctrl D ⌘ D Lower case Ctrl Shift L ⌘ Shift L Upper case Ctrl Shift U ⌘ Shift U Title case Ctrl Shift T ⌘ Shift T Format code (experimental) Ctrl Shift F ⌘ Shift F Finding Search highlighted string in project Ctrl H ⌘ Shift H Jump to next error in project Ctrl . (period) ⌘ . (period) Jump to currently edited file Ctrl J ⌘ J Go to line Ctrl L ⌘ L Find and replace text Ctrl F ⌘ F Find next instance of text F3 Ctrl G ⌘ F3 ⌘ G Find previous instance of text Shift F3, Ctrl Shift G ⌘ Shift F3, ⌘ Shift G Replace hit at the cursor Enter Enter Replace all hits Ctrl Enter ⌘ Enter Match case Shift F4 Shift F4 Whole word Shift F5 Shift F5 Regular expression Shift F6 Shift F6 Dot matches all Shift F7 Shift F7 Jump to file history Ctrl F6 ⌘ F6

Description Win/Linux Mac Standard Editing 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 Backspace Delete character right of cursor Delete Delete (fn Backspace) 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 Navigation Move one character to the left/right ←/→ ←/→ Move one word to the left/right Ctrl ←/→ Alt ←/→ Move to beginning/end of line Home/End ⌘ ←/→, ↖/↘ (fn ←/→) Move one line up/down ↑/↓ ↑/↓ Move one screen-full up/down Page↑/↓ Page↑/↓ (fn ↑/↓) Move to top/bottom Ctrl Home/End ⌘ ↑/↓ Scroll one line up/down Ctrl ↑/↓ Alt ↑/↓

GUI

Global Shortcuts

The following shortcuts are available from most GUI components:

Description Win/Linux Mac Focus input bar F8 ⌘ F8 Focus editor view F12 ⌘ F12 Focus result view Shift F12 Shift ⌘ F12 Jump to next/previous panel Ctrl (Shift) Tab Ctrl (Shift) Tab Increase/Decrease font size Ctrl +/- ⌘ +/- Reset font size Ctrl 0 ⌘ 0

Description Win/Linux Mac Browse back/forward Alt ←/→, Backspace – Browse to the root node Alt Home –

On Mac, no shortcuts are assigned for browsing, as the ⌘ and Alt keys are reserved for cursor movements.

Menu Shortcuts

The following commands and options are also linked from the main menu:

Description Win/Linux Mac Database Create new database Ctrl N ⌘ N Open/manage existing databases Ctrl M ⌘ M View/edit database properties Ctrl Shift M ⌘ Shift M Close opened database Ctrl Q – Exit application – ⌘ Q Editor Create new tab Ctrl T ⌘ T Open existing file Ctrl O ⌘ O Save file Ctrl S ⌘ S Save copy of file Ctrl Shift S ⌘ Shift S Close tab Ctrl W, Ctrl F4 ⌘ W, ⌘ F4 Close all tabs Ctrl Shift W ⌘ Shift W View Toggle query/text editor Ctrl E ⌘ E Toggle project structure Ctrl P ⌘ P Toggle result view Ctrl R ⌘ R Toggle query info view Ctrl I ⌘ I

Description Win/Linux Mac Options Open preference dialog Ctrl Shift P ⌘ , (comma) Visualization Toggle map view Ctrl 1 ⌘ 1 Toggle tree view Ctrl 2 ⌘ 2 Toggle folder view Ctrl 3 ⌘ 3 Toggle plot view Ctrl 4 ⌘ 4 Toggle table view Ctrl 5 ⌘ 5 Toggle explorer view Ctrl 6 ⌘ 6 Help Show Help F1 F1

Changelog

Version 13.0

• Updated: Shortcuts were updated.

Version 10.0

• Updated: Shortcuts were updated.

Version 8.4

• Added: Duplicate line (Ctrl D)
• Added: Lower case (Ctrl Shift L), Upper case (Ctrl Shift U), Title case (Ctrl Shift T)

Version 8.0

• Added: New code completions, popup menu

Version 7.8.2

• Added: Sort lines (Ctrl U)

Version 7.8

• Added: Code Completions, Project (Ctrl P), Find Files (Ctrl Shift F)

Version 7.5

• Added: go to line (Ctrl F)

Version 7.3

• Added: delete line(s) (Ctrl Shift D), jump to highlighted error (Ctrl .)