Keyboard Shortcuts

Keeper Connection Manager PostgreSQL connections utilize EMACS-like commands for more powerful text editing. In order to utilize all of these commands, shortcuts are bound to specific Commands.

Note that some shortcuts may be captured by your browser, browser extensions, operating system, or other applications

Common Actions

Copy and Paste

To copy a region of text, first you need to select the text. The easiest way to do this is to highlight the text using your mouse curser.

To Copy

The copy command is Ctrl-c or Meta-w

Hold the Ctrl key and press the c key or press and release the ESC key then press and release the w key.

To Paste

The Paste command is sometimes referred to as 'Yank' and is activated with Ctrl-v or Ctrl-Y

Hold the Ctrl key and press the v key or press and hold Ctrl the click the y key.

Move to Beginning or End of Line

The cursor can be moved to the beginning or the end of the current line.

Move to Beginning

This command is done with Ctrl-A or the Home key

Click Home or hold the Ctrl key and hit the a key

Move to End

This command is done with Ctrl-E or the End key

Click End or hold the Ctrl key and hit the e key

Complete List of Shortcuts

See the complete list of available commands and shortcuts below.

In this table "Meta-" refers to hitting the ESC key followed by the shown key. For example to use Meta-B (ed-prev-word) hit ESC then release, then hit B and release. Optionally a Meta key can be setup on your keyboard.

Shortcut

Editor Command

Ctrl-@, NUL

set cursor where the mouse is located

Ctrl-A

move cursor to beginning of line

Ctrl-B

move cursor back one character

Ctrl-C

clear the terminal

Ctrl-D

close the current connection

Ctrl-E

move cursor to end of line

Ctrl-F

move cursor one character forward

Ctrl-H, Backspace

delete previous character

Ctrl-J, LF

newline

Ctrl-K

cut line

Ctrl-L, FF

clear screen

Ctrl-M, CR

newline

Ctrl-N

next history

Ctrl-O

tty flush output

Ctrl-P

previous history

Ctrl-Q

tty start output

Ctrl-R

redisplay

Ctrl-S

tty stop output

Ctrl-T

transpose characters

Ctrl-U

cut line

Ctrl-V

quoted insert

Ctrl-W

cut highlighted region

Ctrl-X

sequence lead in

Ctrl-Y

yank (paste)

Ctrl-Z, TSTP

tty sigtstp

Ctrl-[, ESC

move cursor forward

Ctrl-\, QUIT

tty sigquit

Ctrl-]

tty dsusp

Ctrl-?, DEL

delete previous character

Ctrl-Meta-H

delete previous word

Ctrl-Meta-L

clear screen

Ctrl-Meta-_

copy the previous word

Meta-0 to Meta-9

argument digit

Meta-B

previous word

Meta-C

use capitol case

Meta-D

delete next word

Meta-F

move to next word

Meta-L

lower case

Meta-N

search next history

Meta-O

sequence lead in

Meta-P

search previous history

Meta-U

upper case

Meta-W

copy highlighted region

Meta-X

command

Meta-[

sequence lead in

Meta-p

search previous history

Ctrl-Meta-?

delete previous word

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