# Gemini CLI Keyboard Shortcuts

This document lists the available keyboard shortcuts within Gemini CLI.

## General

| Shortcut    | Description                                                                                                           |
| ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Esc`       | Close dialogs and suggestions.                                                                                        |
| `Ctrl+C`    | Cancel the ongoing request and clear the input. Press twice to exit the application.                                  |
| `Ctrl+D`    | Exit the application if the input is empty. Press twice to confirm.                                                   |
| `Ctrl+L`    | Clear the screen.                                                                                                     |
| `Ctrl+S`    | Allows long responses to print fully, disabling truncation. Use your terminal's scrollback to view the entire output. |
| `Ctrl+S`    | Toggle copy mode (alternate buffer mode only).                                                                        |
| `Ctrl+T`    | Toggle the display of the todo list.                                                                                  |
| `Ctrl+Y`    | Toggle auto-approval (YOLO mode) for all tool calls.                                                                  |
| `Shift+Tab` | Toggle auto-accepting edits approval mode.                                                                            |
| `Option+M`  | Toggle Markdown rendering for messages (raw markdown mode).                                                           |
| `F12`       | Toggle the display of the debug console.                                                                              |

## Input Prompt

| Shortcut                                           | Description                                                                                                                         |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `!`                                                | Toggle shell mode when the input is empty.                                                                                          |
| `\` (at end of line) + `Enter`                     | Insert a newline.                                                                                                                   |
| `Down Arrow`                                       | Navigate down through the input history.                                                                                            |
| `Enter`                                            | Submit the current prompt.                                                                                                          |
| `Meta+Delete` / `Ctrl+Delete`                      | Delete the word to the right of the cursor.                                                                                         |
| `Tab`                                              | Autocomplete the current suggestion if one exists.                                                                                  |
| `Up Arrow`                                         | Navigate up through the input history.                                                                                              |
| `Ctrl+A` / `Home`                                  | Move the cursor to the beginning of the line.                                                                                       |
| `Ctrl+B` / `Left Arrow`                            | Move the cursor one character to the left.                                                                                          |
| `Ctrl+C`                                           | Clear the input prompt                                                                                                              |
| `Esc` (double press)                               | Clear the input prompt.                                                                                                             |
| `Ctrl+D` / `Delete`                                | Delete the character to the right of the cursor.                                                                                    |
| `Ctrl+E` / `End`                                   | Move the cursor to the end of the line.                                                                                             |
| `Ctrl+F` / `Right Arrow`                           | Move the cursor one character to the right. `Ctrl+F` also toggles focus between input and interactive shell if active.              |
| `Ctrl+H` / `Backspace`                             | Delete the character to the left of the cursor.                                                                                     |
| `Ctrl+K`                                           | Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.                                                                                      |
| `Ctrl+Left Arrow` / `Meta+Left Arrow` / `Meta+B`   | Move the cursor one word to the left.                                                                                               |
| `Ctrl+N`                                           | Navigate down through the input history.                                                                                            |
| `Ctrl+P`                                           | Navigate up through the input history.                                                                                              |
| `Ctrl+R`                                           | Activate reverse command search history.                                                                                            |
| `Ctrl+Right Arrow` / `Meta+Right Arrow` / `Meta+F` | Move the cursor one word to the right.                                                                                              |
| `Ctrl+U`                                           | Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.                                                                                |
| `Ctrl+V`                                           | Paste clipboard content. If the clipboard contains an image, it will be saved and a reference to it will be inserted in the prompt. |
| `Ctrl+W` / `Meta+Backspace` / `Ctrl+Backspace`     | Delete the word to the left of the cursor.                                                                                          |
| `Ctrl+X` / `Meta+Enter`                            | Open the current input in an external editor.                                                                                       |
| `Ctrl+Z`                                           | Undo last text edit.                                                                                                                |
| `Ctrl+Shift+Z`                                     | Redo last undone text edit.                                                                                                         |

## Suggestions

| Shortcut                | Description                            |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `Down Arrow` / `Ctrl+N` | Navigate down through the suggestions. |
| `Tab` / `Enter`         | Accept the selected suggestion.        |
| `Up Arrow` / `Ctrl+P`   | Navigate up through the suggestions.   |

## Radio Button Select

| Shortcut           | Description                                                                                                   |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Down Arrow` / `j` | Move selection down.                                                                                          |
| `Enter`            | Confirm selection.                                                                                            |
| `Up Arrow` / `k`   | Move selection up.                                                                                            |
| `1-9`              | Select an item by its number.                                                                                 |
| (multi-digit)      | For items with numbers greater than 9, press the digits in quick succession to select the corresponding item. |

## IDE Integration

| Shortcut | Description                       |
| -------- | --------------------------------- |
| `Ctrl+G` | See context CLI received from IDE |

## Meta+key combos on mac

On Mac, all Meta+char combos should work normally except for these three which
are mapped to special functionality.

- `meta+b`: "∫" back one word
- `meta+f`: "ƒ" forward one word
- `meta+m`: "µ" toggle markup view