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Cheat sheet for Windows Terminal key bindings.

Window Terminal

Windows Terminal is nice, but has little GUI intera­ction. To gain it's full value you need to practice keys.

Applic­ation commands
Alt-F4
Close window
Ctrl-S­hift-f
Find
Ctrl-S­hif­t-Space
Open dropdown
Ctrl-,
Open settings file
Alt-Enter
F11
Toggle full screen

Tab commands

New
Ctrl-S­hift-d
Duplicate tab
Ctrl-S­hift-t
New tab
Ctrl-S­hift-
p
New tab from profile 
p=1..9
Switch
Ctrl-Tab
Switch to next tab
Ctrl-S­hif­t-Tab
Switch to prev tab
Ctrl-Alt-
n
Switch to tab 
n=0..9
 

Pane commands

New
Alt-Sh­ift-d
Split pane optimally.
Active profile.
Alt-Sh­ift--
Split pane horizontally.
Default profile.
|||
Alt-Sh­ift-+
Split pane vertically.
Default profile.
Navigate
Alt-Shift-
Resize pane
Alt-
Move pane focus
Ctrl-S­hift-w
Close innermost pane,
tab, or window

Clipboard commands
Ctrl-c
Copy
Ctrl-v
Paste

Scrollback commands
Ctrl-S­hift-up
Scroll up
Ctrl-S­hif­t-down
Scroll down
Ctrl-S­hif­t-pgup
Scroll page up
Ctrl-S­hif­t-pgdn
Scroll page down
 

Visual adjustment commands

+
Ctrl-=
Increase font size*
-
Ctrl--
Decrease font size
Ctrl-0
Reset font size
*) May not work on all keyboards.

Custom­izing key bindings

User Settings
All custom­iza­tions are set in 
settin­gs.json
, as found via the Settings menu. No GUI is available in v1.0.
Defaults
Hold the Alt-key while pressing the Settings menu to open 
defaul­ts.json
. This is useful when building your own 
settin­g.json
!
Keys
Key bindings are set in the 
"­key­bin­din­gs"
block as:
{ "­com­man­d":"c­mdN­ame­", "­key­s":"m­od+­key­"}
Actions
Some commands take additional 
action
arguments to modify the behaviour. See e.g. 
splitPane
and 
copy
.

Further info
                                       
 

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  • Published: 28th May, 2020
  • Last Updated: 29th May, 2020
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Comments

This is labeled "Windows Terminal Cheat Sheet" but there isn't a single command line argument on the list. It's a list of basic GUI keyboard shortcuts.

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