Development Environment

Keyboard Shortcuts and Accelerators

You can access many of the menu items using keyboard shortcuts or accelerators for your platform, such as using Ctrl+x to perform a Cut on Windows platforms, or Alt+f to open the File menu. Many of the shortcuts and accelerators are listed with the menu item. For example, on Windows platforms, the Edit menu shows Cut   Ctrl+x, and the File menu shows the F in File underlined, which indicates that Alt+f opens it. Many standard shortcuts for your platform will work but are not listed with the menu items.

Following are some additional shortcuts that are not listed on menu items.

Keys	Result
Enter	The equivalent of double-clicking, it performs the default action for a selection. For example, pressing Enter while a line in the Command History window is selected runs that line in the Command Window.
Escape	Cancels the current action.
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+F6	Moves to the next tab in the desktop, where the tab is for a tool, or for a file in the Editor/Debugger. When used in the Editor/Debugger in tabbed mode outside of the desktop, moves to the next open file.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab	Moves to the previous tab in the desktop, where the tab is for a tool, or for a file in the Editor/Debugger. When used in the Editor/Debugger in tabbed mode outside of the desktop, moves to the previous open file.
Ctrl+Page Up	Moves to the next tab within a group of tools or files tabbed together.
Ctrl+Page Down	Moves to the previous tab within a window.
Alt+F4	Closes desktop or window outside of desktop.
Alt+Space	Displays the system menu.

On the Alpha platform, even though shortcuts are not listed on the menu items, most standard Alpha shortcuts will work.

Context Menus

Selecting Multiple Items