keybindings.md

Keybindings

Global Keybindings

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
F1	show-help	Show this help screen

Help Page

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Up	scroll-up	Scroll up
Down	scroll-down	Scroll down
PgUp	page-up	Page up
PgDown	page-down	Page down
Esc, C-c	cancel	Return to the previous interface
End	scroll-bottom	Scroll to the end of the help
Home	scroll-top	Scroll to the beginning of the help

Main Interface

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
C-s	select-mode	Select a message to edit/reply/delete
C-r	reply-recent	Reply to the most recent message
M-p	toggle-message-preview	Toggle message preview
F2	toggle-channel-list-visibility	Toggle channel list visibility
F3	toggle-expanded-channel-topics	Toggle display of expanded channel topics
C-Right	next-team	Switch to the next available team
C-Left	prev-team	Switch to the previous available team
(unbound)	move-current-team-left	Move the current team to the left in the team list
(unbound)	move-current-team-right	Move the current team to the right in the team list
M-k	invoke-editor	Invoke $EDITOR to edit the current message
C-g	enter-fast-select	Enter fast channel selection mode
C-q	quit	Quit
Tab	(non-customizable key)	Tab-complete forward
BackTab	(non-customizable key)	Tab-complete backward
Up	scroll-up	Scroll up in the channel input history
Down	scroll-down	Scroll down in the channel input history
PgUp	page-up	Page up in the channel message list (enters message select mode)
S-Home	select-oldest-message	Scroll to top of channel message list
C-n	focus-next-channel	Change to the next channel in the channel list
C-p	focus-prev-channel	Change to the previous channel in the channel list
M-a	focus-next-unread	Change to the next channel with unread messages or return to the channel marked '~'
C-x	show-attachment-list	Show the attachment list
(unbound)	focus-next-unread-user-or-channel	Change to the next channel with unread messages preferring direct messages
M-s	focus-last-channel	Change to the most recently-focused channel
Enter	(non-customizable key)	Send the current message
C-o	enter-url-open	Select and open a URL posted to the current channel
M-l	clear-unread	Clear the current channel's unread / edited indicators
M-e	toggle-multiline	Toggle multi-line message compose mode
Esc, C-c	cancel	Cancel autocomplete, message reply, or edit, in that order
M-8	show-flagged-posts	View currently flagged posts

Text Editing

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
C-t	editor-transpose-chars	Transpose the final two characters
C-a	editor-beginning-of-line	Go to the start of the current line
C-e	editor-end-of-line	Go to the end of the current line
C-d	editor-delete-char	Delete the character at the cursor
C-u	editor-kill-to-beginning-of-line	Delete from the cursor to the start of the current line
C-k	editor-kill-to-end-of-line	Kill the line to the right of the current position and copy it
C-f	editor-next-char	Move one character to the right
C-b	editor-prev-char	Move one character to the left
M-f	editor-next-word	Move one word to the right
M-b	editor-prev-word	Move one word to the left
C-w, M-Backspace	editor-delete-prev-word	Delete the word to the left of the cursor
M-d	editor-delete-next-word	Delete the word to the right of the cursor
Home	editor-home	Move the cursor to the beginning of the input
End	editor-end	Move the cursor to the end of the input
C-y	editor-yank	Paste the current buffer contents at the cursor

Channel Select Mode

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Enter	(non-customizable key)	Switch to selected channel
Esc, C-c	cancel	Cancel channel selection
C-n	focus-next-channel	Select next match
C-p	focus-prev-channel	Select previous match
Down	focus-next-channel-alternate	Select next match (alternate binding)
Up	focus-prev-channel-alternate	Select previous match (alternate binding)

Message Select Mode

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Esc, C-c	cancel	Cancel message selection
k, Up	select-up	Select the previous message
j, Down	select-down	Select the next message
Home	scroll-top	Scroll to top and select the oldest message
End	scroll-bottom	Scroll to bottom and select the latest message
PgUp	page-up	Move the cursor up by 10 messages
PgDown	page-down	Move the cursor down by 10 messages
o	open-message-url	Open all URLs in the selected message
r	reply-message	Begin composing a reply to the selected message
e	edit-message	Begin editing the selected message
d	delete-message	Delete the selected message (with confirmation)
y	yank-message	Copy a verbatim section or message to the clipboard
Y	yank-whole-message	Copy an entire message to the clipboard
p	pin-message	Toggle whether the selected message is pinned
f	flag-message	Flag the selected message
v	view-message	View the selected message
Enter	fetch-for-gap	Fetch messages for the selected gap
a	react-to-message	Post a reaction to the selected message

User Listings

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Esc, C-c	cancel	Close the user search list
C-p, Up	search-select-up	Select the previous user
C-n, Down	search-select-down	Select the next user
PgDown	page-down	Page down in the user list
PgUp	page-up	Page up in the user list
Enter	activate-list-item	Interact with the selected user

URL Select Mode

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Enter	(non-customizable key)	Open the selected URL, if any
Esc, C-c	cancel	Cancel URL selection
k, Up	select-up	Move cursor up
j, Down	select-down	Move cursor down
q	(non-customizable key)	Cancel URL selection

Theme List Window

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Esc, C-c	cancel	Close the theme list
C-p, Up	search-select-up	Select the previous theme
C-n, Down	search-select-down	Select the next theme
PgDown	page-down	Page down in the theme list
PgUp	page-up	Page up in the theme list
Enter	activate-list-item	Switch to the selected color theme

Channel Search Window

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Esc, C-c	cancel	Close the channel search list
C-p, Up	search-select-up	Select the previous channel
C-n, Down	search-select-down	Select the next channel
PgDown	page-down	Page down in the channel list
PgUp	page-up	Page up in the channel list
Enter	activate-list-item	Join the selected channel

Message Viewer: Common

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Esc, C-c	cancel	Close window
Tab	select-next-tab	Select next tab
BackTab	select-previous-tab	Select previous tab

Message Viewer: Message tab

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
PgUp	page-up	Page up
PgDown	page-down	Page down
S-Left	page-left	Page left
S-Right	page-right	Page right
Up	scroll-up	Scroll up
Down	scroll-down	Scroll down
Left	scroll-left	Scroll left
Right	scroll-right	Scroll right
End	scroll-bottom	Scroll to the end of the message
Home	scroll-top	Scroll to the beginning of the message

Message Viewer: Reactions tab

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
PgUp	page-up	Page up
PgDown	page-down	Page down
Up	scroll-up	Scroll up
Down	scroll-down	Scroll down
End	scroll-bottom	Scroll to the end of the reactions list
Home	scroll-top	Scroll to the beginning of the reactions list

Attachment List

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Esc, C-c	cancel	Close attachment list
k, Up	select-up	Move cursor up
j, Down	select-down	Move cursor down
a	add-to-attachment-list	Add a new attachment to the attachment list
o	open-attachment	Open the selected attachment using the URL open command
d	delete-from-attachment-list	Delete the selected attachment from the attachment list

Attachment File Browser

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Esc, C-c	cancel	Cancel attachment file browse
o	open-attachment	Open the selected file using the URL open command

Flagged Messages

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Esc, C-c	cancel	Exit post browsing
k, Up	select-up	Select the previous message
j, Down	select-down	Select the next message
f	flag-message	Toggle the selected message flag
Enter	activate-list-item	Jump to and select current message

Reaction Emoji Search Window

Keybinding	Event Name	Description
Esc, C-c	cancel	Close the emoji search window
C-p, Up	search-select-up	Select the previous emoji
C-n, Down	search-select-down	Select the next emoji
PgDown	page-down	Page down in the emoji list
PgUp	page-up	Page up in the emoji list
Enter	activate-list-item	Post the selected emoji reaction