Keyboard Shortcuts
Qt Creator provides various keyboard shortcuts to speed up your development process.
Configuring Keyboard Shortcuts
To customize a keyboard shortcut:
- Select Tools > Options... > Environment > Keyboard.
- Select an action from the list.
- In Key Sequence enter the shortcut key you want to associate with the selected action.
Qt Creator allows you to use different keyboard shortcut mapping schemes:
- To import a keyboard shortcut mapping scheme, click Import and select the kms file containing keyboard shortcut mapping scheme you want to import.
- To export the current keyboard shortcut mapping scheme, click Export and select the location where you want to save the exported kms file.
Default Keyboard Shortcuts
The following tables list the default keyboard shortcuts. They are categorized by actions.
General Keyboard Shortcuts
| Action | Keyboard shortcut |
|---|
| Open file or project | Ctrl+O |
| New file or project | Ctrl+N |
| Open in external editor | Alt+V, Alt+I |
| Cut | Ctrl+X |
| Copy | Ctrl+C |
| Paste | Ctrl+V |
| Redo | Ctrl+Y |
| Save | Ctrl+S |
| Save all | Ctrl+A |
| Close window | Ctrl+W |
| Close all | Ctrl+Shift+W |
| Go back | Alt+Left |
| Go forward | Alt+Right |
| Go to line | Ctrl+L |
| Next open document in history | Ctrl+Shift+Tab |
| Goto other split | Ctrl+E, O |
| Previous open document in history | Ctrl+Tab |
| Activate Locator | Ctrl+K |
| Switch to Welcome mode | Ctrl+1 |
| Switch to Edit mode | Ctrl+2 |
| Switch to Design mode | Ctrl+3 |
| Switch to Debug mode | Ctrl+4 |
| Switch to Projects mode | Ctrl+5 |
| Switch to Help mode | Ctrl+6 |
| Toggle Build Issues pane | Alt+1 (Cmd+1 on Mac OS X) |
| Toggle Search Results pane | Alt+2 (Cmd+2 on Mac OS X) |
| Toggle Application Output pane | Alt+3 (Cmd+3 on Mac OS X) |
| Toggle Compile Output pane | Alt+4 (Cmd+4 on Mac OS X) |
| Activate Bookmarks pane | Alt+M |
| Activate File System pane | Alt+Y |
| Activate Open Documents pane | Alt+O |
| Activate Projects pane | Alt+X |
| Full screen | Ctrl+Shift+F11 |
| Toggle the sidebar | Alt+0 (Cmd+0 on Mac OS X) |
| Undo | Ctrl+Z |
| Move to Edit mode In Edit mode:
- The first press moves focus to the editor
- The second press closes secondary windows
| Esc |
Editing Keyboard Shortcuts
| Action | Keyboard shortcut |
|---|
| Auto-indent selection | Ctrl+I |
| Collapse | Ctrl+< |
| Expand | Ctrl+> |
| Trigger a completion in this scope | Ctrl+Space |
| Copy line down | Ctrl+Alt+Down |
| Copy line up | Ctrl+Alt+Up |
| Cut line | Shift+Del |
| Join lines | Ctrl+J |
| Decrease font size | Ctrl+- (Ctrl+Roll mouse wheel down) |
| Increase font size | Ctrl++ (Ctrl+Roll mouse wheel up) |
| Toggle Vim-style editing | Alt+V, Alt+V |
| Split | Ctrl+E, 2 |
| Split side by side | Ctrl+E, 3 |
| Remove all splits | Ctrl+E, 1 |
| Remove current split | Ctrl+E, 0 |
| Select all | Ctrl+A |
| Go to block end | Ctrl+] |
| Go to block start | Ctrl+[ |
| Go to block end with selection | Ctrl+} |
| Go to block start with selection | Ctrl+{ |
| Move current line down | Ctrl+Shift+Down |
| Move current line up | Ctrl+Shift+Up |
| Trigger a quick fix in this scope | Alt+Return |
| Rewrap paragraph | Ctrl+E, R |
| Select the current block The second press extends the selection to the parent block
| Ctrl+U |
| Enable text wrapping | Ctrl+E, Ctrl+W |
| Toggle comment for selection | Ctrl+/ |
| Visualize whitespace | Ctrl+E, Ctrl+V |
| Delete | Del |
| Adjust size | Ctrl+J |
| Lay out in a grid | Ctrl+G |
| Lay out horizontally | Ctrl+H |
| Lay out vertically | Ctrl+L |
| Preview | Alt+Shift+R |
| Edit signals and slots | F4 |
| Edit widgets | F3 |
| Toggle bookmark | Ctrl+M |
| Go to next bookmark | Ctrl+. |
| Go to previous bookmark | Ctrl+, |
| Fetch snippet | Alt+C, Alt+F |
| Paste snippet | Alt+C, Alt+P |
| Find usages | Ctrl+Shift+U |
| Follow symbol under cursor Works with namespaces, classes, methods, variables, include statements and macros
| F2 |
| Rename symbol under cursor | Ctrl+Shift+R |
| Switch between method declaration and definition | Shift+F2 |
| Open type hierarchy | Ctrl+Shift+T |
| Switch between header and source file | F4 |
| Turn selected text into lowercase | Alt+U |
| Turn selected text into uppercase | Alt+Shift+U |
Debugging Keyboard Shortcuts
| Action | Keyboard shortcut |
|---|
| Start debugging | F5 |
| Stop or interrupt debugger | Shift+F5 |
| Reset debugger | Ctrl+Shift+F5 |
| Step over | F10 |
| Step into | F11 |
| Step out | Shift+F11 |
| Toggle breakpoint | F9 |
| Run to selected function | Ctrl+F6 |
Project Keyboard Shortcuts
| Action | Keyboard shortcut |
|---|
| Build project | Ctrl+B |
| Build all | Ctrl+Shift+B |
| New project | Ctrl+Shift+N |
| Run | Ctrl+R |
Help Keyboard Shortcuts
| Action | Keyboard shortcut |
|---|
| View context-sensitive help | F1 |
| Activate contents in Help mode | Ctrl+T |
| Add bookmark in Help mode | Ctrl+M |
| Activate index in Help mode | Ctrl+I |
| Reset font size in Help mode | Ctrl+0 |
| Activate search in Help mode | Ctrl+S |
Version Control Keyboard Shortcuts
| Action | Version control system |
|---|
| CVS | Git | Perforce | Subversion | Mercurial |
|---|
| Add | Alt+C, Alt+A | Alt+G, Alt+A | | Alt+S, Alt+A | |
| Commit | Alt+C, Alt+C | Alt+G, Alt+C | | | Alt+H, Alt+C |
| Diff | Alt+C, Alt+D | Alt+G, Alt+D | | Alt+S, Alt+D | Alt+H, Alt+D |
| Diff project | | Alt+G, Alt+Shift+D | Alt+P, Alt+D | | |
| Blame | | Alt+G, Alt+B | | | |
| Log | | Alt+G, Alt+L | Alt+P, Alt+F | | Alt+H, Alt+L |
| Log project | | Alt+G, Alt+K | | | |
| Status | | Alt+G, Alt+S | | | Alt+H, Alt+S |
| Undo changes | | Alt+G, Alt+U | | | |
| Diff project | | Alt+G, Alt+Shift+D | Alt+P, Alt+D | | |
| Edit | | | Alt+P, Alt+E | | |
| Opened | | | Alt+P, Alt+O | | |
| Revert | | | Alt+P, Alt+R | | |
| Submit | | | Alt+P, Alt+S | | |
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