Windows Terminal Cheat Sheet

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Cheat sheet for Windows Terminal key bindings.

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Windows Terminal is nice, but has little GUI interaction. To gain it's full value you need to practice keys.

Application commands

	Alt-F4	Close window
	Ctrl-Shift-f	Find
	Ctrl-Shift-Space	Open dropdown
	Ctrl-,	Open settings file
	Alt-Enter F11	Toggle full screen

Tab commands

New
	Ctrl-Shift-d	Duplicate tab
	Ctrl-Shift-t	New tab
	Ctrl-Shift-`p`	New tab from profile `p=1..9`
Switch
	Ctrl-Tab	Switch to next tab
	Ctrl-Shift-Tab	Switch to prev tab
	Ctrl-Alt-`n`	Switch to tab `n=0..9`

Pane commands

New
	Alt-Shift-d	Split pane optimally. Active profile.
	Alt-Shift--	Split pane horizontally. Default profile.
\|\|\|	Alt-Shift-+	Split pane vertically. Default profile.
Navigate
	Alt-Shift-	Resize pane
	Alt-	Move pane focus
	Ctrl-Shift-w	Close innermost pane, tab, or window

Clipboard commands

	Ctrl-c	Copy
	Ctrl-v	Paste

Scrollback commands

	Ctrl-Shift-up	Scroll up
	Ctrl-Shift-down	Scroll down
	Ctrl-Shift-pgup	Scroll page up
	Ctrl-Shift-pgdn	Scroll page down

Visual adjustment commands

⁺	Ctrl-=	Increase font size^*
^-	Ctrl--	Decrease font size
	Ctrl-0	Reset font size

*) May not work on all keyboards.

Customizing key bindings

User Settings	All customizations are set in `settings.json`, as found via the Settings menu. No GUI is available in v1.0.
Defaults	Hold the Alt-key while pressing the Settings menu to open `defaults.json`. This is useful when building your own `setting.json`!
Keys	Key bindings are set in the `"keybindings"` block as: `{ "command":"cmdName", "keys":"mod+key"}`
Actions	Some commands take additional `action` arguments to modify the behaviour. See e.g. `splitPane` and `copy`.

Further info

- Windows Terminal docs
- Custom key bindings

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Comments (1)

Caraket 17:20 27 Jan 2022

This is labeled "Windows Terminal Cheat Sheet" but there isn't a single command line argument on the list. It's a list of basic GUI keyboard shortcuts.