Keyboard shortcuts

General

Hold down Alt (Windows), Shift (on Linux) or Option (on Mac) to prevent loading the user interface state for the IDE. This prevents the loading of tabs and defaults Xojo to a standard window size.

⌥ = Option key
⌘ = Command key
^ Ctrl = Control key
⇧ or Shift = Shift key
Alt = Alternate key

Code Editor

These are the keyboard shortcuts that work with the Code Editor. Add Shift to many of the these commands to also select the text. In general, the Code Editor on Mac uses standard Cocoa text editor keyboard shortcuts, so there may be other shortcuts available that are not listed here.

Mac	Windows	Linux	Description
`⌘` + [Double-click on method]	`Ctrl` + [Double-click on method]	`Ctrl` + [Double-click on method]	Navigate to the method that was double-clicked.
`⌘ '`	`Ctrl '`	`Ctrl '`	Comment or uncomment the selected block of code. If not code is selected, then it works on the current line.
`⌥ Enter`/`⌥ Return`	`Ctrl m`/`Enter Return`	`Ctrl m`/`Enter Return`	Adds the Line Continuation character (_) and moves you to a new line.
`⌘ \`	`Ctrl \`	`Ctrl \`	Toggles the breakpoint on/off for the current line of code.
`⇧ Return`	`Shift Return`	`Shift Return`	This will auto-complete a code block. For example, if you type If True and then press Shift-Return, the code editor will auto-complete to look add the Then, a blank line and the End If then position the cursor on the blank line between the If and End If. This works with all code blocks, such as If...Then, While...Wend, For...Next, Select Case, etc.
`⌘ Left` Arrow	`Home`	`Home`	Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.
`⌘ Right` Arrow	`End`	`End`	Moves the cursor to the end of the line.
`^ t`			Transposes the characters at the cursor.
`^ k`			Deletes characters from the cursor to the end of the line.
`⌥ Backspace`	`Ctrl Backspace`	`Ctrl Backspace`	Deletes the previous word.
`⌘ Backspace`			Deletes characters from the cursor to the beginning of the line.
`⌥ Right` Arrow	`Ctrl Right` Arrow	`Ctrl Right` Arrow	Moves forward one word at a time.
`⌥ Left` Arrow	`Ctrl Left` Arrow	`Ctrl Left` Arrow	Moves backward one word at a time.
`⌥ Delete`	`Ctrl Delete`	`Ctrl Delete`	Deletes the next word.
`⌘ Up` Arrow or `Home`	`Ctrl Home`	`Ctrl Home`	Go to first line of code.
`⌘ Down` Arrow or `End`	`Ctrl End`	`Ctrl End`	Go to last line of code.

Adding your own menu shortcuts

To add or change menu shortcuts, use the Menu shortcut editor in the General Preferences. In this editor there is an entry for each Xojo menu item. You can use this to change, add or remove a shortcut for any of the menu items.

On Mac you can also add your own shortcuts to menu items using System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and then select "App Shortcuts" in the list. Add Xojo manually and then specify the exact menu for which you want a shortcut. For example, to create a shortcut for clearing all breakpoints, you would create an entry like this and specify the keyboard shortcut you want (use "->" to specify nested menus):

Project->Breakpoint->Clear All