Keyboard Shortcuts

Reaching for the mouse breaks your train of thought. Every formatting action available from the context menu also has a keyboard shortcut, so you can bold a phrase, drop in a heading, or search a document without your hands ever leaving the keys. This page lists the shortcuts built into Zelares’s editor.

Text formatting

These shortcuts toggle an inline wrapper around the current selection, or around the word under your cursor if nothing is selected, the same wrappers described in Markdown Basics.

ActionWindows / LinuxmacOS
BoldCtrl + B + B
ItalicCtrl + I + I
StrikethroughCtrl + Shift + S + Shift + S
Code (inline)Ctrl + E + E

Headings

Each shortcut sets the current line to the matching heading level, replacing any heading markers already there. Running Heading 1 on a line that’s already Heading 1 leaves it unchanged.

ActionWindows / LinuxmacOS
Heading 1Ctrl + 1 + 1
Heading 2Ctrl + 2 + 2
Heading 3Ctrl + 3 + 3

General

These shortcuts aren’t about formatting text so much as moving through it, undoing a change, redoing one, or jumping straight to a word or phrase without scrolling to find it.

ActionWindows / LinuxmacOS
UndoCtrl + Z + Z
RedoCtrl + Shift + Z + Shift + Z
FindCtrl + F + F
Find and replaceCtrl + H + Option + F

For the same actions performed from the right-click menu instead of the keyboard, see Context Menu. For the full Markdown reference behind each shortcut, see Markdown Basics. For an overview of the editor itself, see Using the Editor.