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Zim keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 4/7/2018 on https://defkey.com/zim-shortcuts

Zim is a wiki-style text editor for desktop. Each wiki created with Zim can
contain some basic text formatting and links to other pages. It is a free
software licensed under GNU General Public License.

Zim has 63 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



General
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F9                      Toggle visibility of sidepane(s)
Ctrl + F9               Show all sidepanes
Ctrl + Space            Toggle focus between index and buffer
Ctrl + Space            Open side pane if index is invisible
Ctrl + Tab              Focus to the next inteface element (gtk default)
Ctrl + Shift + Tab      Focus to the previous interface element (gtk default)
Esc                     Close sidepane (when focus is on a side pane)
Alt + Home              Go to the home page
Alt + Left arrow        Go one page back in history
Alt + Right arrow       Go one page forward in history
Alt + Up arrow          Go one level up in the page hierarchy
Alt + Down arrow        Go one page down in the page hierarchy
Alt + Page Up           Go to the previous page in the index
Alt + Page Down         Go to the next page in the index
Alt + D                 Go to today's page
Ctrl + Q                Quit the application
Ctrl + W                Close window
Ctrl + F                Find in the current page
Ctrl + G                Find next
Shift + Ctrl + G        Find previous
Shift + Ctrl + F        Search in all pages
Ctrl + H                Find and Replace
Ctrl + S                Save page (forced)
Shift + Ctrl + S        Save version...
Ctrl + R                Reload page (saves first)
Ctrl + J                Jump to page...  (either an existing or a new page)
Ctrl + L                Link selected text (follow selected text as link when read-only)
Shift + Ctrl + L        Copy a link to the current page to the clipboard
Ctrl + E                Show the "edit link" dialog
Ctrl + D                Insert timestamp
Ctrl + 1                Make selected text a heading
Ctrl + 2                Make selected text a heading
Ctrl + 3                Make selected text a heading
Ctrl + 4                Make selected text a heading
Ctrl + 5                Make selected text a heading
Ctrl + 9                Make selected text normal
Ctrl + B                Make selected text strong
Ctrl + I                Make selected text italic
Ctrl + U                Make selected text underline (renders highlighted)
Ctrl + K                Make selected text strike-trough
Ctrl + T                Make selected text verbatim text (monospace font)
Ctrl + Z                Undo
Shift + Ctrl + Z        Redo
Ctrl + Y                Redo
Shift + Ctrl + D        Show the calendar dialog
F1                      Show the manual
F2                      Rename current page
F3                      Find next (same as Ctrl + G)
Shift + F3              Find previous (same as Ctrl + G)
F5                      Reload page (same as Ctrl + R)
F12                     Toggle checkbox item to 'OK'
Shift + F12             Toggle checkbox item to 'NOK'

Also all the usual keybindings apply for the gtk text edit widget, thus
bindings like Ctrl + C, Ctrl +X, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + A etc. work as expected.



Side pane tree
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Ctrl + L                Insert a link to the selected page
Shift + Ctrl + L        Copy the selected page to clipboard
Ctrl + C                Copy the selected page to clipboard
Ctrl + F                Search in the page list as shown
*                       Expand all
\                       Collapse all


Text selection
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*                       Toggle bullets for selected text
Toggle                  email-style quoting for selected text
Tab                     Indent selected text
Shift + Tab             Unindent selected text
Backspace               Un indent selected text

Source: zim-wiki.org


Last modified on (UTC): Monday, November 11, 2019
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