Opening, tabs and quitting

Inside Skink: Ctrl+E, then help opening.

Everything opens as a tab: files, help, command output, git views, settings and terminals.

## Start Skink

| Command | Opens | |---|---| | skink FILE[:LINE[:COL]] | a file, at a position | | skink DIR | a folder: file tree and an empty buffer | | skink | inside a project: your last session; elsewhere a scratch buffer |

## Tabs

| Key | Does | |---|---| | Ctrl+O | open a file or folder by path | | Alt+P | quick open (:recent) | | Ctrl+T | new empty tab | | Alt+1 … Alt+9 | tab 1 to 9 | | Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown | previous / next tab (also Alt+, and Alt+.) | | Ctrl+Q | close the tab; the last file tab quits |

Click a tab to select it, its × or a middle-click to close it.

## Sessions

skink with no arguments inside a project (a folder with .git, Cargo.toml, package.json, go.mod, pyproject.toml or build.zig, or below one) reopens the files, cursors, splits, file tree and shells it had when you quit there. Opening a file or folder starts fresh and leaves the saved session alone. Turn it off with "restoresession": false.

## Views

Help, command output and git views are read-only tabs; opening the same view again reuses its tab. :run CMD runs a command in the project root in the background and shows its output in a tab when it finishes.

Notes from background work (search done, session restored) show briefly in the top-right corner.

See also: [Terminals](terminal) · [File tree](tree) · [Files on disk](files)