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Vandle

Help · Getting around

Keyboard

Every key Vandle listens to, which keys stay with your terminal, and how to change them.

Vandle can be used without the mouse. The keys below are the defaults; every one of them can be changed.

Which keys belong to whom

  • Ctrl+Shift belongs to Vandle. Window and tab actions live there.
  • Ctrl+letter belongs to the terminal. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+R, Ctrl+L reach your shell as they always did.
  • Tab keys such as Ctrl+Enter or Ctrl+S only act where the tab in front can do something with them. Anywhere else the key goes on to the terminal or the page.
  • F1 stays with a program in a terminal, because mc, htop and many terminal tools use it. Ctrl+F1 opens the help from there.

Window

Keys Action
F1 Help for the tab in front
Ctrl+F1 Help, also from a terminal
Ctrl+Shift+B Show or hide the sidebar
Ctrl+Shift+Enter Full screen
Ctrl+Shift+L Lock the master key
Ctrl+Shift+, Settings
Ctrl+Shift+K Toolbox

Tabs

Keys Action
Ctrl+Shift+T New tab, or switch to an open one
Ctrl+Tab Tab switcher, most recent first
Ctrl+PgDn / PgUp Next / previous tab in the bar
Ctrl+Shift+1…8 Tab by its place
Ctrl+Shift+9 Last tab
Ctrl+Shift+W Close the tab
Ctrl+Shift+D Duplicate the tab
Ctrl+Shift+R Reload, or reconnect a tab that dropped
Ctrl+Shift+H Hand the tab over as a file
Ctrl+Shift+O Open a handed-over tab

Layouts

Keys Action
Ctrl+Shift+Y Show a tab beside this one
Ctrl+Alt+← → ↑ ↓ Pane on that side
Ctrl+Shift+J Next pane

More in Layouts and splits.

Web

Keys Action
Ctrl+L Go to an address
Alt+← / → Back / forward
F12 Developer tools

Terminal

Keys Action
Ctrl+Shift+C Copy (also Ctrl+C with a selection)
Ctrl+Shift+V Paste
Ctrl+Shift+A Select all
Ctrl+Shift+F Find in the output
Ctrl++ / - / 0 Larger / smaller / original text
Ctrl+Shift+P Port forwards (SSH)
Ctrl+Shift+E Files on this host (SSH)

Copy, paste and select all are fixed and cannot be moved.

Remote desktop

Keys Action
Ctrl+Alt+Home Take the keyboard back
Ctrl+Alt+End Ctrl+Alt+Del on the remote machine
Ctrl+Shift+M Mute the microphone
Ctrl+Shift+S Mute the sound

A remote desktop keeps every other key for the machine on the other side, except the tab, layout and window keys you need to get out of it. See Remote desktop.

API, databases and dashboards

Keys Action
Ctrl+Enter Send the call, or run the statement under the cursor
Ctrl+S Save; in the dashboard builder: Done
Ctrl+E Edit the dashboard
Ctrl+Shift+N New call; in a file tab: new folder

Files

Enter opens, Backspace goes up one folder, F2 renames, Del deletes and F5 copies to the other side. These are fixed.

Change a key

  1. Open Settings with Ctrl+Shift+, and go to Hotkeys.
  2. Click the key of an action, then press the new combination. Esc cancels.
  3. If another action had that combination, it gives it up and Vandle tells you which one.

Reset all brings every default back. Some actions, such as the route and name diagnosis, have no key until you give them one.