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

The four non-Emacs maps are non-modal: they’re just 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.

On macOS the non-Emacs keymaps use ⌘ wherever the keybindings reference shows Ctrl. Emacs uses Control on every platform.

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; Esc cancels the capture).
• Reset restores that command’s default.
• Reset all clears every override.

Changes apply live across all windows. Your overrides are saved in settings.toml (the keymap name plus per-command entries) and layer on top of the active keymap, so you only store what you change. Switching keymaps keeps your overrides on top.

Reading and writing the reference

• 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.

Notes

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.