Shortcut Keys

There are shortcut key combinations in the menus for many Bean-specific commands.

In addition, here are some standard OS X text-editing keyboard shortcuts. Some of them are not intuitively obvious, especially for people with a Windows PC background.

⌃⌘D ... popup dictionary (courtesy OS X)

[esc] ... word completion hints (courtesy OS X)

⌘↑ ... cursor to beginning of document

⌘↓ ... cursor to end of document / force completed layout

⌥← ... cursor to word left

⌥→ ... cursor to word right

⌃↑ ... view page up

⌃↓ ... view page down

fn↑ ... scroll view page up

fn↓ ... scroll view page down

fn⌥↑ ... cursor page up

fn⌥↓ ... cursor page down

⇧↑ ... select line up

⇧↓ ... select line down

fn⇧↑ ... select page up

fn⇧↓ ... select page down

⇧⌘↑ ... select to beginning of document

⇧⌘↓ ... select to end of document

⌥⌫ ... erase word left

fn⌥⌫ ... erase word right

⌥[ ... force straight double quote (when 'Smart Quotes' is on)

⌥] ... force straight single quote (when 'Smart Quotes' is on)

⌃[return] ... insert line break (Leopard only)

⌥[space bar] ... insert non-breaking space

[scroller knob]⌥ ... extra slow scroll (Leopard only)

[ctrl]t ... transpose the two characters nearest to the insertion point

For Lists:

⌥[tab] ... create new list

[tab] ... indent list item

⇧[tab] ... un-indent list item

⌃⌥[tab] ... insert tab into list item (OS X 10.5+)

⌥⌘→ ... indent list item (in Bean only)

⌥⌘← ... un-indent list item (in Bean only)

NOTE: [return] on an empty line un-indents a new list item

Find Panel:

⌥[tab] ... insert tab character into search field

⌥[return] ... insert return character into search field

[option] ... causes Replace All/Select All (in entire document) to become Replace All/Select All (in selection only)

Color Panel:

⇧[option] ... will set the highlight color (background color) of selected text instead of the font color (in Bean only)

Symbols Legend:

⌃ control key

⌘ command key

⌥ option (or alt)

fn function key

⇧ shift key

⌫ delete key