Many of the shortcuts are configurable by way of the Settings menu. By default KWrite honors the following shortcuts:
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 |
Alt+Page Up | Previous Bookmark |
Page Down | Move the cursor down one page |
Alt+Page Down | Next Bookmark |
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? |
F3 | |
Shift+F3 | |
Ctrl+A | Select All |
Ctrl+Shift+A | Deselect |
Ctrl+Shift+B | Block Selection Mode |
Ctrl+B | Set a Bookmark |
Ctrl+C | Copy the marked text to the clipboard. |
Ctrl+D | Comment |
Ctrl+Shift+D | Uncomment |
Ctrl+F | |
Ctrl+G | Go to line... |
Ctrl+I | Indent selection |
Ctrl+Shift+I | Unindent selection |
Ctrl+J | Join Lines |
Ctrl+N | New document |
Ctrl+O | |
Ctrl+P | |
Ctrl+Q | Quit - close active copy of editor |
Ctrl+R | |
Ctrl+S | Invokes the Save command. |
Ctrl+U | Uppercase |
Ctrl+Shift+U | Lowercase |
Alt+Ctrl+U | Capitalize |
Ctrl+V | Paste the clipboard text into line edit. |
Ctrl+W | |
Ctrl+X | Delete the marked text and copy it to the clipboard. |
Ctrl+Z | |
Ctrl+Shift+Z | |
Ctrl+- | Collapse One Local Level |
Ctrl+Shift+- | Collapse Toplevel |
Ctrl++ | Expand One Local Level |
Ctrl+Shift++ | Expand Toplevel |
F5 | |
F6 | Show/Hide Icon Border |
F7 | Switch to Command Line |
F9 | Show/Hide Folding Markers |
F10 | Dynamic Word Wrap |
F11 | Show/Hide Line Numbers |
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