Editing

Inside Skink: Ctrl+E, then help editing.

Keys follow Micro; [every key](keys) has a list.

| Key | Does | |---|---| | Shift + arrows, mouse drag | select | | Ctrl+A | select all | | Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V | copy / cut / paste (no selection: the whole line) | | Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y | undo / redo | | Alt+Up / Alt+Down | move lines | | Ctrl+Shift+D | duplicate the line | | Tab / Shift+Tab | indent / outdent | | Alt+/ or Ctrl+/ | comment or uncomment lines | | Ctrl+] | jump to the matching bracket | | Alt+O / Alt+I | grow / shrink the selection by syntax | | Ctrl+U | start / stop recording a macro (● REC in the status line) | | Ctrl+J | replay the macro |

## Typing helps

- Brackets and quotes close themselves; typing the closer steps over it, and Backspace between an empty pair deletes both. With a selection they wrap it. Quotes don't pair inside words. Off with "autoclose": false. - Enter after ( [ { indents and puts the closer on its own line. - Tab inserts the file's own indentation (tabs or spaces, detected). "tabstospaces": true picks spaces for new files. - The cursor moves over whole characters as you see them: emoji, accented letters, flags.

## Lines and case

:JoinLines :SortLines :UpperCase :LowerCase :TitleCase :TrimTrailingWhitespace work on the selection (case: the word at the cursor), at every cursor, as one undo step.

## Undo history

Undo survives closing a saved file and quitting, as long as the file didn't change on disk in between (2 MB per file, 32 MB in all, in the state folder).

## Scrolling

The wheel scrolls lines; Shift+wheel or a sideways swipe scrolls long lines until the cursor moves.

> [!NOTE] > Without the kitty keyboard protocol some terminals send Ctrl+] as Ctrl+5 and Ctrl+Shift+D as Ctrl+D. Bind another key in bindings.json, for example `{"Ctrl-5": "JumpToMatchingBrace"}`, or use the [typed command](typed).

See also: [Multiple cursors](cursors) · [Find and replace](find)