Zim - a desktop wiki

Keybindings

If there are menu items or features that do not have a key-binding that you think should have one, email a feature request to pardus@cpan.org. Please do include a suggestion which key to actually use because finding keys that are still free is a real puzzle.

( Keybindings that edit the buffer or create a new page are disabled in read-only mode. )

General

F9			Toggle index visibility
alt-space		Toggle focus between index and buffer
    		 	opens side pane if index is invisible
ctrl-space		Same as ctrl-space - optional see preferences
ctrl-tab		Focus next inteface element (gtk default)

alt-home		Go to the home page
alt-left		Go one page back in history
alt-right		Go one page forward in history
alt-up		Go one page up in the namespace
alt-down		Go one page down in the namespace
			(The actual page is choosen by the history)
alt-pgup		Go to the previous page in the index
alt-pgdown		Go to the next page in the index
alt-D			Go to todays page

^Q			Quit the application
^w			Close window

^F			Find in the current page
^G			Find next
shift-^G		Find previous
alt-/			alias for ^F  (just '/' in readonly mode)
shift-^F  	     Search in all pages
^H			Find and Replace

^S			Save page        (forced)
shift-^S	Save version...
^R			Reload page      (saves first)
^J			Jump to page...  (either an existing or a new page)

^L			Link selected text
			Follow selected text as link when read-only
shift-^L		Copy a link to the current page to the clipboard
			In the side pane copies a link to the selected page
			(Paste this link in a page with ^V)
^E			Show the "edit link" dialog
^D			Inserts timestamp

^1..^5		Make selected text a heading
^6			Make selected text normal
^B			Make selected text strong
^I			Make selected text italic
^U			Make selected text underline     (renders highlighted)
^K			Make selected text strike-trough
^T			Make selected text verbatim text (monospace font)

^Z			Undo
Shift-^Z		Redo
^Y			Redo

shift-^D		Show the calendar dialog

F1			Show the manual
F2			Rename current page
F3			Find next		(same as ^G)
F5			Reload page	(same as ^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 ^C, ^X, ^V, ^A etc. work as expected.

Side pane tree

The following key bindings works when the tree in the side pane is focussed:

^L			Insert a link to the selected page
shift-^L	Copy the selected page to clipboard
^C			Copy the selected page to clipboard
^F			Search in the page list as shown
*			Expand all
\			Collapse all

Text selections

For selected text the following keybindings are added:

*				Toggle bullets for selected text
>				Toggle email-style quoting for selected text
TAB				Indent selected text
shift-TAB		Un-indents selected text
BACKSPACE		Un-indents selected text

Changing accelerators

Gtk+ implements a feature that allows you to change accelerators (keybindings for menu items) interactively. To use this feature you need to either enable this setting in the settings manager of you desktop environment or add the line:

gtk-can-change-accels = 1

to ~/.gtkrc-2.0 . Zim will remember any changes. If you ever want to reset to the default bindings just remove the "accelmap" file from ~/.config/zim/.

Emacs mode

Zim does not support an emacs mode specifically, however Gtk+ does. When you set this option all Gtk+ programs will use emacs key bindings for text inputs. To use this feature you need to enable this setting in the settings manager of your desktop environment or add the line:

gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

to ~/.gtkrc-2.0 . Of course of you use this you will need to customize a number of accelerators as well which conflict with the emacs keybindings. See the secttion above.