Key Bindings

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# 2.3. 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-M | 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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