=================================== PICO-8 (Windows) keyboard shortcuts =================================== First published at 1/12/2024 on https://defkey.com/pico-8-windows-shortcuts PICO-8 is a virtual machine and game engine developed by Lexaloffle Games. It imitates the limited graphical and sound capabilities of 8-bit systems to encourage producing games without being overwhelmed with the many possibilities of modern tools and machines. PICO-8 (Windows) has 117 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below. While running ------------- P Pause menu Enter Pause menu Ctrl + P Performance Monitor See btn() for details on default controller/keyboard mappings, and keyconfig for info on changing those mappings. Command Line ------------ Ctrl + C Copy (entire line) Ctrl + V Paste Up arrow / Down arrow History End End-of-line Ctrl + E End-of-line Home Start-of-line Ctrl + A Start-of-line Ctrl + K Kill to end-of-line Ctrl + U Kill to start-of-line Ctrl + L Clear screen Text editor ----------- Ctrl + X Cut Ctrl + C Copy Ctrl + V Paste Ctrl + A Select All Ctrl + K Katakana (Japanese) Font Entry Mode Toggle Ctrl + J Hiragana (Japanese) Font Entry Mode Toggle Ctrl + P Puny (Small Caps) Font Entry Mode Toggle Shift + [A - Z] Glyph (Icons) Font Entry Insert Insert/overwrite toggle Shift + Enter Add indented line and 'END' Home Start of line Ctrl + W Start of line End End of line Ctrl + E End of line Ctrl + Home Start of document Ctrl + Up arrow Start of document Ctrl + End End of document Ctrl + Down arrow End of document Ctrl + Left arrow Previous word Ctrl + Right arrow Next word Alt + Up arrow Previous function Alt + Down arrow Next function Tab Indent selection Shift + Tab Un-indent selection Ctrl + Z Undo Ctrl + Y Redo Ctrl + F Find text in current tab Ctrl + G Find text aGain Ctrl + H Repeat search across tabs (Hyper search) Ctrl + I Go to Line number Ctrl + L Go to Line number Ctrl + D Duplicate current line Ctrl + B Toggle comment Block Ctrl + Tab Switch to next tab Ctrl + Shift + Tab Switch to previous tab Sprite editor ------------- All tools: Space + Left click + Move the mouse Pan tool Ctrl + C Copy Note: When a sprite or range of sprites is copied to the clipboard, they may be pasted into other programs as a text-encoded representation. This representation can be uploaded in a BBS post and will show as the actual sprite. Similarly, a sprite encoded in text may be copied from outside of PICO-8 and pasted into the sprite editor. Ctrl + V Paste (at current sprite location) Ctrl + Z Undo/Redo (single-step) Q Previous sprite W Next sprite Shift + Q Sprite above Shift + W Sprite below 1 Previous color 2 Next color Tab Toggle full view Ctrl + Left click Replace color Arrow keys Shift by one pixel F Flip Horizontal H Flip Horizontal V Flip Vertical R Rotate 90° CCW < Zoom > Zoom Wheel up and wheel down Zoom Draw tool: Ctrl + C Copy Ctrl + V Paste (at upper left) Ctrl + Left click Replace color Right click Color Picker Stamp tool: Left Ctrl + Left click Stamp with color 0 transparent Select tool: Enter Select none Lower sprite sheet area: Shift + Left click + Move the mouse Select multiple sprites (for flip, shift, copy, rotate) Map editor ---------- Ctrl + X Move a sprite to another sprite and changes all sprites on map equal to the sprite number to the new sprite number SFX editor ---------- Both views: Tab Swap pitch/note views . Increase Speed , Decrease Speed Shift + . Increase Speed by 4 Shift + , Decrease Speed by 4 = Switch to Next Sound Effect - Switch to Previous Sound Effect Shift + = Switch to n+4 Sound Effect Shift + - Switch to n-4 Sound Effect Shift + Left click (on an instrument) Change all notes to the selected instrument Note view: For each of the transpose shortcuts, you need to have notes selected. Shift + Left click (on the notes. First click is left side, second click is right side) Select Multiple Notes Shift + Left click (on an effect) Apply Effect to All Notes Ctrl + Up arrow / Down arrow Navigate up/down 4 notes Ctrl + Left arrow / Right arrow Navigate to left/right column Shift + 2 Transpose +1 (one semitone) Shift + W Transpose +2 Shift + 3 Transpose +3 Shift + E Transpose +4 Shift + R Transpose +5 Shift + 5 Transpose +6 Shift + T Transpose +7 Shift + 6 Transpose +8 Shift + Y Transpose +9 Shift + 7 Transpose +10 Shift + U Transpose +11 Shift + I Transpose +12 (one octave) Shift + 9 Transpose +13 Shift + O Transpose +14 Shift + 0 Transpose +15 Shift + Z Transpose -12 (one octave) Shift + S Transpose -11 Shift + X Transpose -10 Shift + D Transpose -9 Shift + C Transpose -8 Shift + V Transpose -7 Shift + G Transpose -6 Shift + B Transpose -5 Shift + H Transpose -4 Shift + N Transpose -3 Shift + J Transpose -2 Shift + M Transpose -1 Source: pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/Keyboard_Shortcuts Last modified on (UTC): Friday, January 12, 2024 Defkey © All rights reserved.