Key Bindings
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Key Bindings

Many of the key bindings (shortcuts) are configurable by way of the Settings menu. By default KWrite honors the following key bindings.

Insert

Toggle between Insert and Overwrite mode. When in insert mode the editor will add any typed characters to the text while pushing along any data to the right of the text cursor. Overwrite mode causes the entry of each character to eliminate the character immediately to the right of the text cursor.

Left Arrow

Move the cursor one character to the left

Right Arrow

Move the cursor one character to the right

Up Arrow

Move the cursor up one line

Down Arrow

Move the cursor down one line

Page Up

Move the cursor up one page

Page Down

Move the cursor down one page

Backspace

Delete the character to the left of the cursor

Home

Move the cursor to the beginning of the line

End

Move the cursor to the end of the line

Delete

Delete the character to the right of the cursor (or any selected text)

Shift+Left Arrow

Mark text one character to the left

Shift+Right Arrow

Mark text one character to the right

F1

Help

Shift+F1

What's this?

Ctrl+F

Find

F3

Find again

Ctrl+C

Copy the marked text to the clipboard.

Ctrl+B

Set a Bookmark

Ctrl+N

New document

Ctrl+P

Print

Ctrl+Q

Quit - close active copy of editor

Ctrl+R

Replace

Ctrl+S

Invokes the Save command.

Ctrl+V

Paste the clipboard text into line edit.

Ctrl+X

Delete the marked text and copy it to the clipboard.

Ctrl+Z

Undo

Ctrl+Shift+Z

Redo

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