Keyboard shortcuts

Every binding Emet responds to, in one place. Ctrl means Cmd on a Mac unless a table says otherwise. Most of the visual editor’s bindings are Tiptap’s defaults and most of the Markdown editor’s are CodeMirror’s, so if you’ve used either before, your fingers already know a lot of this.

Everywhere#

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+S`	Save the open entry (does nothing if there’s nothing to save)
`Ctrl+.`	Toggle focus mode (needs an entry open)
`Esc`	Leave focus mode, unless a dialog is open
`Ctrl+F`	Jump to the entry list filter, when you’re not inside an editor
`Ctrl+K`	Search every section by title or body text, when you’re not inside an editor

Note that Esc leaving focus mode includes the Esc you press to get out of insert mode in Vim, so in focus mode you’ll want jj instead.

Visual mode#

Text formatting#

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+B`	Bold
`Ctrl+I`	Italic
`Ctrl+U`	Underline
`Ctrl+Shift+S`	Strikethrough
`Ctrl+E`	Inline code
`Ctrl+Shift+H`	Highlight
`Ctrl+,`	Subscript
`Ctrl+Shift+.`	Superscript

Underline, highlight, subscript and superscript are only available on sites that allow raw HTML (see Raw HTML); elsewhere these keys do nothing.

Blocks#

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+Alt+0`	Paragraph
`Ctrl+Alt+1` to `Ctrl+Alt+6`	Heading levels 1 to 6
`Ctrl+Shift+B`	Blockquote
`Ctrl+Alt+C`	Code block
`Ctrl+Shift+8`	Bullet list
`Ctrl+Shift+7`	Numbered list
`Ctrl+Shift+9`	Task list
`Tab` / `Shift+Tab`	Indent or outdent a list item
`Shift+Enter`	Line break

The heading dropdown only offers levels 1 to 3, but the keys cover all six.

Alignment#

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+Shift+L`	Align left
`Ctrl+Shift+E`	Centre
`Ctrl+Shift+R`	Align right
`Ctrl+Shift+J`	Justify

Alignment is written as raw HTML, so these shortcuts are also only active on sites that allow it.

Links and history#

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+K`	Open the link popover
`Ctrl+Z`	Undo
`Ctrl+Y` or `Ctrl+Shift+Z`	Redo

AI#

These only exist when AI is enabled in cms.yaml.

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+J`	Open the inline AI menu for the selection
`Ctrl+Shift+A`	Open the AI chat panel

Both are configurable:

ai:
  shortcuts:
    inlineAction: Mod-J
    openChat: Mod-Shift-A

Mod is Tiptap’s name for Ctrl or Cmd, whichever the platform uses. See Inline actions and Chat.

Markdown mode#

Formatting#

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+B`	Wrap selection in `**`
`Ctrl+I`	Wrap selection in `*`
`Ctrl+K`	Prompt for a URL and insert `[text](url)`

Search#

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+F`	Open the search and replace panel
`Ctrl+G` / `Ctrl+Shift+G`	Next / previous match (`F3` and `Shift+F3` work too)
`Ctrl+D`	Add the next occurrence of the selection as another cursor
`Ctrl+Shift+L`	Select every occurrence of the selection
`Ctrl+Alt+G`	Go to line
`Esc`	Close the search panel

Editing#

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+Z`	Undo
`Ctrl+Y`	Redo (`Cmd+Shift+Z` on a Mac; `Ctrl+Shift+Z` also works on Linux)
`Tab` / `Shift+Tab`	Indent / unindent
`Ctrl+]` / `Ctrl+[`	Indent / unindent
`Alt+Up` / `Alt+Down`	Move line up / down
`Shift+Alt+Up` / `Shift+Alt+Down`	Copy line up / down
`Ctrl+Shift+K`	Delete line
`Ctrl+Enter`	Insert a blank line below
`Ctrl+Alt+Up` / `Ctrl+Alt+Down`	Add a cursor above / below
`Ctrl+/`	Toggle an HTML comment around the line
`Ctrl+Space`	Open autocomplete (useful inside `ref` and `relref`)

Folding#

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+Shift+[`	Fold at cursor (`Cmd+Alt+[` on a Mac)
`Ctrl+Shift+]`	Unfold at cursor (`Cmd+Alt+]` on a Mac)
`Ctrl+Alt+[`	Fold everything (real `Ctrl` on a Mac)
`Ctrl+Alt+]`	Unfold everything (real `Ctrl` on a Mac)

Vim mode#

With Vim switched on, the standard Vim bindings apply and these are added:

Mapping	Action
`jj` (insert mode)	Back to normal mode
`:w`	Save the entry
`Ctrl+V`	Visual block mode (`Ctrl+Q` if your browser takes `Ctrl+V`)

Those use Ctrl on macOS too. See Markdown mode for more.