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Ren'Py keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 12/8/2020 on https://defkey.com/renpy-shortcuts

Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine is a free software engine used to create visual
novels. Ren'Py can create branching stories, save file systems, various
scene transitions and more. It can build games for Windows, Linux, macOS,
Android, OpenBSD, iOS, HTML5 and Web Assembly.

Ren'Py has 28 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



General
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Left click              Advance through game
Space                   Advance through game. Does not activate choices
Enter                   Advance through game
Left click              Make a choice in menu
Arrow keys              Navigate between choices. Enter to activate it
Right click             Open game menu
Esc                     Open game menu
Ctrl                    (hold) Skip
Tab                     Toggle skipping
Wheel up                Rollback (reverse game back in time, even allowing menu choices to be
changed)
Page Up                 Rollback (reverse game back in time, even allowing menu choices to be
changed)
Wheel down              Rollforward (cancel out a previous rollback)
Page Down               Rollforward (cancel out a previous rollback)
Middle click            Hide text window and other transient dialogs
H                       Hide text window and other transient dialogs
F                       Toggle full-screen mode
S                       Take a screenshot and save it
Alt + H                 Minimize the window
Cmd + H                 Minimize the window
Alt + F4                Quit the game
Cmd + Q                 Quit the game
Del                     When a save slot is selected, delete that save slot


Developer
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These keys aims to make developer's life easier. Many of these shortcuts
needs the variable "config.developer" to be set to "True" to work.

Shift + O               Console (available in developer mode or when config.console is active)
Shift + E               Editor support (The config.editor variable allows a developer to specify an
editor command that is run when the launch_editor keypress)
Shift + D               Developer menu (config.developer should be set true)
Shift + R               Reloading (When config.developer is True, this shortcut will save the
current game, reload game script and reload the game. This will generally
place you at the last unchanged statement encountered before Shift + R was
pressed
Shift + I               Style inspecting (when config.developer is true)
Shift + Y               Style dumping (when config.developer is true)

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