Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts

Every binding, and how to change them. Ctrl also accepts Cmd on macOS.

Press Ctrl+? in the app for the same list in a floating overlay.

Sessions and tabs

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+K (also Cmd+K, Alt+K)	Find an open session or start a new one.
Ctrl+W	Kill the active session.
Ctrl+Tab	Next session.
Alt+[ / Alt+]	Previous / next tab.
Alt+1 to Alt+9	Switch to tab N. Physical keys, so macOS Option layouts work.
Ctrl+Shift+{ / Ctrl+Shift+}	Move the active tab left / right.
Alt+B	Collapse / expand the session sidebar, when that layout is on.

Terminal

Shortcut	Action
Enter	Send.
Shift+Enter	Insert a newline without sending.
Ctrl+Enter	Same.
Ctrl+C	Copy the selection, or interrupt when nothing is selected.
Ctrl+Shift+C	Copy the selection. Never interrupts.
Ctrl+L	Clear the terminal.
Ctrl+Shift+R	Restore terminal size.
Ctrl + / Ctrl -	Font size.
Shift+Wheel	Scroll the local buffer, even where the wheel is forwarded to the CLI.

Everything else

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Shift+V	Toggle voice input.
Ctrl+?	Shortcut reference overlay.
Escape	Close panels and modals.

Rebinding

App Settings → Shortcuts. Bindings live in a registry with per-user overrides, so a rebind is stored as an override on top of the default rather than replacing the table.

Two things are deliberately not rebindable:

• Ctrl+C smart copy. The generic dispatch loop calls preventDefault() on every shortcut it handles, and doing that to Ctrl+C would swallow the interrupt when nothing is selected. It is handled separately for that reason.
• Escape, which closes whatever is open.

Why some chords behave oddly

The terminal sees keystrokes before the app does. Any chord the app claims has to also be swallowed at the terminal layer, or xterm writes the control byte into the session as well as triggering the action. If you rebind something to a chord the terminal cares about (Ctrl+D, say), expect the CLI to see it too.

Alt+1 through Alt+9 are matched on physical key position rather than the character produced, so macOS Option layouts that produce ¡™£ still switch tabs.

On phones

There is no physical keyboard, so the equivalents live in the keyboard accessory bar: Esc, Ctrl as a one-shot modifier, Tab, arrows, and quick actions. See Mobile Guide.

Read next

• The Dashboard - what the shortcuts are navigating.
• Settings Reference - where the overrides are stored.