Editora v0.21.0

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Keymaps & keybindings

Editora is keyboard-first, and every action is a command, so the keyboard layer is entirely yours to change.

The five keymaps

Editora ships five complete keymaps, selectable in Settings → Keymaps or with keymap.select:

  • Emacs (default)
  • CUA
  • Sublime Text
  • VS Code
  • IntelliJ IDEA

None of them is modal: they’re different chord-to-command maps over the same command ids, so switching changes accelerators without stranding any feature. Switching is live, with no restart, and every chord hint updates with it: toolbar tooltips, the command palette, tool-window tooltips, and the Welcome shortcuts. Hints are written in the notation of the active keymap and platform: Ctrl+Shift+P, ⇧⌘P, or Emacs notation in the Emacs keymap.

Undo and toggle-comment also have chords that can be typed on keyboards where / is a shifted key: C-x u, C-_, and Ctrl+Shift+7 undo in the Emacs keymap, and Ctrl+Shift+7 or the numpad slash toggle a comment in the other keymaps.

On macOS the non-Emacs keymaps mostly use ⌘ where the keybindings reference shows Ctrl. A few chords differ beyond the modifier, where macOS reserves the obvious one: Replace is ⌥⌘F rather than Ctrl+H in the CUA, Sublime Text and VS Code keymaps, for example. The command palette always shows the chord that applies on your machine. Emacs uses Control on every platform.

Emacs notation reads C- as Ctrl, M- as Alt (Option on macOS) and S- as Shift, and a space separates the steps of a sequence: C-x C-s is Ctrl+X, then Ctrl+S.

Rebinding commands

The Settings → Keymaps page lists every command with its current chord and a filter. For any command:

  • Record captures a new chord (multi-key sequences like C-x C-s are supported; Enter saves it and Esc cancels the capture).
  • Reset restores that command’s default.
  • Reset all shortcuts clears every override.

Changes apply live across all windows. Your overrides are saved in settings.json (the keymap name plus per-command entries) and layer on top of the active keymap, so you only store what you change. Overrides are kept per keymap: switching keymap does not unbind unrelated keys, and switching back restores the rebinds you made there. Overrides are also stored per platform, since a chord is modifier-specific (⌘ on macOS, Ctrl elsewhere), so a config synced between a Mac and a Windows or Linux machine binds each OS’s own chord instead of both.

The reference pages

  • The Commands page lists every command grouped by area, with its description and default chord per keymap.
  • The Keybindings page shows each keymap’s bindings grouped by area, with a tab per keymap.

Limitations

The recorder allows a modifier-less chord, which can shadow plain typing, so use care there. Modal Vim is deferred: the flat chord-to-command resolver can’t express a normal/insert/visual state machine yet.