Keyboard shortcuts

The shortcuts of the IDE, the SQL, ETL and plugin editors and notebooks, the RStudio and Jupyter presets, and how to rebind them.

Summary

Shortcuts work wherever you write code: the project IDE — editor, terminal, notebooks —, but also the SQL editors, ETL scripts and the plugin editor. You rebind them in a dedicated window, and two presets — RStudio and Jupyter — align a notebook family’s shortcuts in one go with whichever tool you are used to.

Client Backend

The combinations below are shown for your system: ⌘ is the Command key on a Mac, Control on Windows and Linux. Switch system here, and every key on the page follows.

Keys for

General

These work anywhere in the IDE.

Action	Shortcut
Toggle sidebar	`⌘`+`B`
Toggle terminal	`⌘`+`
New file	`⌘`+`⌥`+`N`
Clear terminal / output	`⌘`+`K`

Action	Shortcut
Toggle sidebar	`Cmd/Ctrl` + `B`
Toggle terminal	`Cmd/Ctrl` + `
New file	`Cmd/Ctrl` + `Alt` + `N`
Clear terminal / output	`Cmd/Ctrl` + `K`

Why Alt for "New file"

⌘+N is reserved by the browser, which opens a window without a page being able to prevent it. The shortcut therefore goes through Alt (⌥ on a Mac).

Editor

Action	Shortcut
Save file	`⌘`+`S`
Run selection / line	`⌘`+`↵`
Run file	`⌘`+`Shift`+`↵`
Run file as background job	`⌘`+`Shift`+`J`
Toggle comment	`⌘`+`Shift`+`C`

Action	Shortcut
Save file	`Cmd/Ctrl` + `S`
Run selection / line	`Cmd/Ctrl` + `Enter`
Run file	`Cmd/Ctrl` + `Shift` + `Enter`
Run file as background job	`Cmd/Ctrl` + `Shift` + `J`
Toggle comment	`Cmd/Ctrl` + `Shift` + `C`

Four more are handled by the code editor itself, keep their usual combinations and cannot be rebound: find (⌘+F), find and replace (⌘+H), undo (⌘+Z) and redo (⌘+Shift+Z).

The editors outside the IDE — SQL script collections, a database’s SQL tab, an ETL pipeline’s scripts, the plugin editor — take the ones that apply to them: save, run, comment, and the sidebar and new file when they have one.

Notebooks

This is where habits diverge most, which is why the two families have their own defaults.

Action	R Notebooks (Rmd / Qmd)	Jupyter (ipynb)
Run cell and advance	`⌘`+`Shift`+`↵`	`Shift`+`↵`
Run cell	`⌘`+`↵`	`⌘`+`↵`
Run cell and insert below	—	`⌥`+`↵`
Run all cells	`⌘`+`⌥`+`R`	`⌘`+`F9`
Run all cells above	`⌘`+`⌥`+`P`	`F8`
Insert cell	`⌘`+`⌥`+`I`	—
Insert cell above	—	`A`
Insert cell below	—	`B`
Delete cell	—	`D`
Render document	`⌘`+`Shift`+`K`	`⌘`+`Shift`+`K`

Action	R Notebooks (Rmd / Qmd)	Jupyter (ipynb)
Run cell	Cmd/Ctrl + Enter	Cmd/Ctrl + Enter
Run cell and advance	Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Enter	Shift + Enter
Run cell and insert below	—	Alt + Enter
Run all cells	Cmd/Ctrl + Alt + R	Cmd/Ctrl + F9
Run all cells above	Cmd/Ctrl + Alt + P	F8
Insert cell	Cmd/Ctrl + Alt + I	—
Insert cell above	—	A
Insert cell below	—	B
Delete cell	—	D
Render document	Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K	Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K

A dash marks an action with no default shortcut: it stays available in the notebook, and you can assign one to it.

Both sets coexist

The R notebook shortcuts apply only to an .Rmd or .qmd file, the Jupyter ones only to an .ipynb. Working with both formats therefore needs no setting.

Customising

The Keyboard shortcuts window opens from the keyboard icon in the IDE toolbar — and from the same button in the SQL, ETL and plugin editors, where it shows only the shortcuts that apply there. It files shortcuts into four families: General, Editor, R Notebooks (Rmd / Qmd) and Jupyter Notebooks (ipynb).

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Keyboard shortcuts

Click a combination, then type another one. Escape cancels.

General

Toggle sidebar

Toggle terminal

New file

Clear terminal / output

Editor

Save file

Run selection / line

Run file

Run file as background job

Toggle comment

R Notebooks (Rmd / Qmd)

Preset:

Run cell and advance

Run cell

Run cell and insert below

Run all cells

Run all cells above

Insert cell

Insert cell above

Insert cell below

Delete cell

Render document

Jupyter Notebooks (ipynb)

Preset:

Run cell and advance

Run cell

Run cell and insert below

Run all cells

Run all cells above

Insert cell

Insert cell above

Insert cell below

Delete cell

Render document

For this demo — simulate a combination the browser reserves:

The Keyboard shortcuts window, working: click a combination, type another, then confirm with the tick. Try Cmd/Ctrl + S on another row to see the conflict warning; under the window, a button simulates a combination reserved by the browser. The RStudio and Jupyter buttons switch a notebook family's preset.

To change a shortcut, click its combination: “Press keys…” appears. Type the new one, then confirm with the tick; Escape cancels.

Conflict — if the combination is already in use, a warning names the action concerned (“Conflicts with …”). It does not block the change: rebinding the other action is up to you.
Reserved by the browser — ⌘+W, ⌘+T, ⌘+Q and ⌘+L close or open tabs and windows without a page being able to stop it: confirming is blocked.
Going back — a changed shortcut gains a reset button. Reset all to defaults, which only appears once a shortcut has been changed, puts everything back to its original value, after confirmation.

The presets

Each notebook family has its own Preset selector — RStudio or Jupyter — in its header. It aligns its ten shortcuts in one go with either tool’s habits: you can give your R notebooks Jupyter’s gestures, or the other way round. The lit button shows which preset your shortcuts follow; it goes dark as soon as you change one.

Your shortcuts stay in this browser

They are saved in your browser, not in the project nor on the server. They do not travel in an export and are not imposed on your colleagues — but they do not follow you to another computer either.

Going further

IDE — the screen these shortcuts act on.
Glossary — the terms used in this documentation.