Keyboard Shortcuts

Most of the commands available on the main toolbar and the collection toolbar have keyboard shortcuts associated with them. The editor box where you can edit the text held by a clip recognizes many additional text editing keyboard shortcuts not listed here.

The system-wide hotkeys that you can configure in the Hotkeys Preferences are also not listed here.

Main toolbar

Ctrl+N                New AceText Collection
Ctrl+W                Close AceText Collection

Ctrl+O                Open AceText Collection
Ctrl+S                Save AceText Collection
Ctrl+P                Print AceText Collection

Shift+F5              SequencePaste Up
Ctrl+F5               SequencePaste Down

F8                    AceText Editor
Ctrl+F8               AceText Tower

F12                   Always Visible
F11                   Word Wrap
Shift+F11             Line Numbers

Collection toolbar

F7                    Go To Collection

Ctrl+F7               Automatic Capture
Alt+F7                Auto Append
Shift+F7              Auto Split

Shift+F4              New Folder
Ctrl+F4               New Subfolder
F4                    New Clip
Shift+Ctrl+O          Create Clip from Text File
Ctrl+D                Duplicate Clips
Ctrl+M                Move Clips
Shift+Ctrl+Up         Move Up
Shift+Ctrl+Down       Move Down
Shift+Ctrl+PgUp       Move to Top
Shift+Ctrl+PgDown     Move to Bottom
Ctrl+G                Merge Clips
Shift+Ctrl+G          Split Clips
Del                   Delete Clips

Ctrl+Z                Undo
Ctrl+Y                Redo

Shift+Ctrl+X          Cut Clip to Clipboard
Shift+Ctrl+C          Copy Clip to Clipboard
Shift+Ctrl+V          Paste as New Clip

Collection tabs

Shift+Ctrl+R          Read Only
Shift+Ctrl+L          Lock Collection

Search toolbar

Ctrl+F                Focus Search box
Ctrl+F                Find Next (if Search box has keyboard focus)

Ctrl+F3               Find First
Ctrl+F6               Find First Clip
F3                    Find Next
F6                    Find Next Clip
Shift+F3              Find Previous
Shift+F6              Find Previous Clip
F2                    Filter Clips

Alt+F3                Replace Current and Find Next
Shift+Alt+F3          Replace Current and Find Previous
Ctrl+Alt+F3           Replace All

Shift+Ctrl+F          Search Options
Alt+F2                Find Duplicate
Ctrl+F2               Highlight All
Ctrl+I                Incremental Search

Shift+Ctrl+R          RegexBuddy

Text editing and conversion

Shift+Ctrl+D          Duplicate Text into New Clip
Shift+Ctrl+M          Move Text into New Clip
Ctrl+X                Cut Text
Ctrl+C                Copy Text
Ctrl+V                Paste Text into Clip
Shift+Ctrl+S          Save Text

Shift+Ctrl+U          Upper Case
Shift+Ctrl+L          Lower Case

Ctrl+Q                Straight ⇒ Smart Quotes
Shift+Ctrl+Q          Smart ⇒ Straight Quotes

Ctrl+/                Toggle Comment
Ctrl+T                Trim Whitespace
Shift+Ctrl+T          Trim Whitespace from Paragraphs

Keyboard navigation

Ctrl+Tab              Activate the next tab
Shift+Ctrl+Tab        Activate the previous tab

Alt+1 through Alt+0   Activate tabs 1 through 10, counting from left to right

F9                    Focus Editor
Ctrl+F9               Focus Clip Tree

Ctrl+Arrow Up         Select previous item
Ctrl+Arrow Down       Select next item