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XWiki Keyboard Shortcuts

Last modified by Manuel Smeria on 2012/11/30 12:55
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Since XWiki Enterprise version 1.4M1, you can use keyboard shortcuts to use some XWiki features. Keyboard shortcuts help you save time since you never have to take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse.

Using keyboard shortcuts

View Mode

View keyboard shortcuts are only available to advanced users, preventing simple users to get unexpected behavior when pressing keyboard keys by mistake

a) Edit Actions

E

Edit the page using the default edition mode

K

Edit the page in wiki edition mode

G

Edit the page using the WYSIWYG editor

F

Inline Form

R

Edit page access rights

O

Edit page objects

S

Edit class

b) View Actions

C

Go to page comments

A

Go to page attachments

H

Go to page history

D

View page wiki code

c) Other Actions

F2

Rename page

Delete

Delete page

Edit Wiki & Edit Inline Mode

While in Inline Edit mode and focusing on a WYSIWYG edit area, the keyboard shortcuts listed below  won't work since the WYSIWYG editor grabs all the key pressed events.

Alt + C

Cancel edition

Alt + P

Preview the page without saving

Alt + Shift + S

Save and continue to edit the page

Alt + S

Save and view the page

Edit WYSIWYG Mode

Ctrl + A

 		Selects all the content inside the editing area

Ctrl + B

or

Meta + B

 		Formats the selected text as bold

Ctrl + C

or

Ctrl + Insert

 		Copies the current selection to the clipboard

Ctrl + ↓

 		Creates an empty paragraph after the table containing the caret or the selection and places the caret in it. This is useful when you can't move the caret after a table because the page ends with it

Ctrl + I

or

Meta + I

 		Formats the selected text as italic

Ctrl + U

or

Meta + U

 		Formats the selected text as underline

Ctrl + ↑

 		Creates an empty paragraph before the table containing the caret or the selection and places the caret in it. This is useful when you can't move the caret before a table because the page starts with it

Ctrl + V

or

Shift + Insert

 		Pastes the data from the clipboard

Ctrl + X

or

Shift + Delete

 		Cuts the current selection

Ctrl + Y

or

Meta + Y

 		Triggers the redo function

Ctrl + Z

or

Meta + Z

 		Triggers the undo function

WYSIWYG Macro Support (since XE 3.0)

↓

or

↑

or

←

or

→

 Navigate the macro output

Enter

 		Edit macro

Space

 		Toggle between collapsed and expanded macro state

Ctrl + Shift + R

 		Reloads the macros

Ctrl + Shift + E

 		Expands all/selected macros

Ctrl + Shift + C

 		Collapses all/selected macros

Ctrl + Shift + M

 		Opens the insert macro wizard

Preview Mode

Alt + C

Cancel edition

Alt + B

Back to the edition

Alt + Shift + S

Save and continue to edit the page

Alt + S

Save and view the page

Annotations

Ctrl + M

Annotate a piece of text

Navigation

Ctrl + G

or

Meta + G

Jump to any page in the wiki 

Configuring keyboard shortcuts

Modifying keyboard shortcuts

  • Create a new page in your wiki, for example XWiki.KeyboardShortcuts and paste the following content inside:
    core.shortcuts.view.edit=e
    core.shortcuts.view.wiki=k
    core.shortcuts.view.wysiwyg=g
    core.shortcuts.view.inline=f
    core.shortcuts.view.rights=r
    core.shortcuts.view.objects=o
    core.shortcuts.view.class=s
    core.shortcuts.view.comments=c
    core.shortcuts.view.attachments=a
    core.shortcuts.view.history=h
    core.shortcuts.view.information=i
    core.shortcuts.view.code=d
    core.shortcuts.view.delete=Delete
    core.shortcuts.view.rename=F2
    core.shortcuts.edit.cancel=Alt+C
    core.shortcuts.edit.backtoedit=Alt+B
    core.shortcuts.edit.preview=Alt+P
    core.shortcuts.edit.saveandcontinue=Alt+Shift+S
    core.shortcuts.edit.saveandview=Alt+S
  • Modify entries in this list at your convenience
  • Save the page
  • Go to the wiki administration into the "Programming" category
  • At the bottom, add XWiki.KeyboardShortcuts to the "Internationalization Document Bundles" list

Adding your own shortcuts

You can add your own keyboard shortcuts in a few javascript lines :

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
  shortcut.add("Ctrl+Alt+n", function() { alert("Hey there! Congratulations on typing this one ;)"); });
//]]>
</script>

Try the snippet by pressing Ctrl + Alt + n.

Also check the complete documentation.

Removing keyboard shortcuts

To remove a shortcut adapt this snippet to your needs :

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
  shortcut.remove("Ctrl+Alt+n");
//]]>
</script>
Click here to try the snippet, it will remove the Ctrl+Alt+n shortcut.

Removing all shortcuts at once

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
  for (binding in shortcut.all_shortcuts) {
    shortcut.remove(binding);
  }
//]]>
</script>

Credits

XWiki keyboard shortcuts are powered by openjs.com shortcut library.

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Created by Jean-Vincent Drean on 2008/03/12 10:55

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