Many of the key bindings (shortcuts) are configurable by way of the Settings menu. By default KWrite honors the following key bindings.
Insert | Toggle between Insert and Overwrite mode. When in insert mode the editor will add any typed characters to the text while pushing along any data to the right of the text cursor. Overwrite mode causes the entry of each character to eliminate the character immediately to the right of the text cursor. |
Left Arrow | Move the cursor one character to the left |
Right Arrow | Move the cursor one character to the right |
Up Arrow | Move the cursor up one line |
Down Arrow | Move the cursor down one line |
Page Up | Move the cursor up one page |
Page Down | Move the cursor down one page |
Backspace | Delete the character to the left of the cursor |
Home | Move the cursor to the beginning of the line |
End | Move the cursor to the end of the line |
Delete | Delete the character to the right of the cursor (or any selected text) |
Shift-Left Arrow | Mark text one character to the left |
Shift-Right Arrow | Mark text one character to the right |
F1 | Help |
Shift-F1 | |
Ctrl-F | |
F3 | |
Ctrl-C | Copy the marked text to the clipboard. |
Ctrl-M | Set a Bookmark |
Ctrl-N | New document |
Ctrl-P | |
Ctrl-Q | Quit - close active copy of editor |
Ctrl-R | |
Ctrl-S | Invokes the Save command. |
Ctrl-V | Paste the clipboard text into line edit. |
Ctrl-X | Delete the marked text and copy it to the clipboard. |
Ctrl-Z | |
Ctrl-Shift-Z |