# Keyboard Shortcuts

Every binding below is the default and every one can be changed: Ctrl+, opens the key map. Ctrl+K opens the command palette, which finds any command by name without needing a key at all.

On macOS, read Ctrl as Cmd.

## Transport

## Pace

The mouse wheel changes the pace anywhere in the app.

## Markers and chapters

Chapter and marker jumps stop at the ends. At the last chapter, "next" does nothing rather than wrapping round to the first — a jump to the top of the script in the middle of a programme is never what anyone meant.

## Appearance

These are the presenter's screen, not the editor.

## Output

## Script and project

## View

## Mapping by pointing at the button

Ctrl+Shift+K turns on mapping mode. The app paints a lit rectangle over every control that accepts a shortcut, with its current key printed inside. Click the one you mean, press the key, done.

That is the answer to the question the list above cannot give: what is this button's key? You are looking at the button, not scrolling ninety command names hoping to recognise one.

Three things worth knowing before you turn it on:

- The layer swallows clicks, including the play key. A band across the top stays visible the whole time saying so and how to leave. Esc exits from anywhere, and the header key stays lit while the mode is on.

- Sliders are not included. Pace, type size, margin, volume — nothing continuous is mappable. Deliberate: a key can only step a slider, and a step is not what those controls are for.

- It works with the show on air. Blocking it there would be deciding for you, and mapping a pad during a rehearsal is a legitimate thing to want.

## A MIDI controller

The same mode accepts a pad instead of a key: click a lit rectangle and press the button on the surface. The binding is stored beside the keyboard one, so a command can have both.

The full list has three columns — keyboard, mouse and control surface — and the search finds a command by any of them.

Only note-style messages are read, which is to say pads and buttons, not faders or knobs — the same reason sliders are out. Permission is asked once, and only the operator window ever listens.

## Two families that never share a key

F1 F2 F3 are the three modes — whole screens, mutually exclusive. F5 F6 F7 F8 are the panels, which toggle on top of whatever mode you are in. They are kept apart on purpose: a key that sometimes replaces the screen and sometimes toggles a panel would be a key you cannot press without looking.