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Ace Editor keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 10/11/2018 on https://defkey.com/ace-editor-shortcuts

Ace is a collaborative real-time text editor. It allows multiple online
users to view and edit a shared text document.

Ace Editor has 78 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



Line operations
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Ctrl + D                Remove line
Alt + Shift + Down arrow Copy lines down
Alt + Shift + Up arrow  Copy lines up
Alt + Down arrow        Move lines down
Alt + Up arrow          Move lines up
Alt + Del               Remove to line end
Alt + Backspace         Remove to linestart
Ctrl + Backspace        Remove word left
Ctrl + Del              Remove word right


Selection
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Ctrl + A                Select all
Shift + Left arrow      Select left
Shift + Right arrow     Select right
Ctrl + Shift + Left arrow Select word left
Ctrl + Shift + Right arrow Select word right
Shift + Home            Select line start
Shift + End             Select line end
Alt + Shift + Right arrow Select to line end
Alt + Shift + Left arrow Select to line start
Shift + Up arrow        Select up
Shift + Down arrow      Select down
Shift + Page Up         Select page up
Shift + Page Down       Select page down
Ctrl + Shift + Home     Select to start
Ctrl + Shift + End      Select to end
Ctrl + Shift + D        Duplicate selection
Ctrl + Shift + P        Select to matching bracket


Multicursor
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Ctrl + Alt + Up arrow   Add multi-cursor above
Ctrl + Alt + Down arrow Add multi-cursor below
Ctrl + Alt + Right arrow Add next occurrence to multi-selection
Ctrl + Alt + Left arrow Add previous occurrence to multi-selection
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Up arrow Move multicursor from current line to the line above
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Down arrow Move multicursor from current line to the line below
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Right arrow Remove current occurrence from multi-selection and move to next
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Left arrow Remove current occurrence from multi-selection and move to previous
Ctrl + Shift + L        Select all from multi-selection


Go to
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Left arrow              Go to left
Right arrow             Go to right
Ctrl + Left arrow       Go to word left
Ctrl + Right arrow      Go to word right
Up arrow                Go line up
Down arrow              Go line down
Alt + Left arrow        Go to line start
Home                    Go to line start
Alt + Right arrow       Go to line end
End                     Go to line end
Page Up                 Go to page up
Page Down               Go to page down
Ctrl + Home             Go to start
Ctrl + End              Go to end
Ctrl + L                Go to line
Ctrl + Down arrow       Scroll line down
Ctrl + Up arrow         Scroll line up
Ctrl + P                Go to matching bracket


Find / replace
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Ctrl + F                Find
Ctrl + H                Replace
Ctrl + K                Find next
Ctrl + Shift + K        Find previous


Folding
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Alt + L                 Fold selection
Ctrl + F1               Fold selection
Alt + Shift + L         Unfold
Ctrl + Shift + F1       Unfold
Alt + 0                 Fold all
Alt + Shift + 0         Unfold all


Other
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Tab                     Indent
Shift + Tab             Outdent
Ctrl + Z                Undo
Ctrl + Shift + Z        Redo
Ctrl + Y                Redo
Ctrl + ,                Show the settings menu
Ctrl + /                Toggle comment
Ctrl + T                Transpose letters
Ctrl + Enter            Enter full screen
Ctrl + Shift + U        Change to lower case
Ctrl + U                Change to upper case
Insert                  Overwrite
Ctrl + Shift + E        Macros replay
Ctrl + Alt + E          Macros recording
Del                     Delete

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