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Keyboard shortcuts

The IPython Notebook has two different keyboard input modes. Edit mode allows you to type code/text into a cell and is indicated by a green cell border. Command mode binds the keyboard to notebook level actions and is indicated by a grey cell border.

MacOS modifier keys:

• ⌘ : Command

• ⌃ : Control

• ⌥ : Option

• ⇧ : Shift

• ↩ : Return

• ␣ : Space

• ⇥ : Tab

Command Mode (press Esc to enable)

• ↩ : enter edit mode

• ⇧↩ : run cell, select below

• ⌃↩ : run cell

• ⌥↩ : run cell, insert below

• Y : to code

• M : to markdown

• R : to raw

• 1 : to heading 1

• 2 : to heading 2

• 3 : to heading 3

• 4 : to heading 4

• 5 : to heading 5

• 6 : to heading 6

• ↑ : select cell above

• K : select cell above

• ↓ : select cell below

• J : select cell below

• A : insert cell above

• B : insert cell below

• X : cut selected cell

• C : copy selected cell

• ⇧V : paste cell above

• V : paste cell below

• Z : undo last cell deletion

• D,D : delete selected cell

• ⇧M : merge cell below

• S : Save and Checkpoint

• ⌘S : Save and Checkpoint

• L : toggle line numbers

• O : toggle output

• ⇧O : toggle output scrolling

• Esc : close pager

• Q : close pager

• H : show keyboard shortcut help dialog

• I,I : interrupt kernel

• 0,0 : restart kernel

• ␣ : scroll down

• ⇧␣ : scroll up

• ⇧ : ignore

Edit Mode (press Enter to enable)

• ⇥ : code completion or indent

• ⇧⇥ : tooltip

• ⌘] : indent

• ⌘[ : dedent

• ⌘A : select all

• ⌘Z : undo

• ⌘⇧Z : redo

• ⌘Y : redo

• ⌘↑ : go to cell start

• ⌘↓ : go to cell end

• ⌥← : go one word left

• ⌥→ : go one word right

• ⌥⌫ : delete word before

• ⌥⌦ : delete word after

• Esc : command mode

• ⌃M : command mode

• ⇧↩ : run cell, select below

• ⌃↩ : run cell

• ⌥↩ : run cell, insert below

• ⌃⇧subtract : split cell

• ⌃⇧ : split cell

• ⌘S : Save and Checkpoint

• ↑ : move cursor up or previous cell

• ↓ : move cursor down or next cell

• ⇧ : ignore