Keyboard Shortcuts

Qt Creator provides various keyboard shortcuts to speed up your development process. You can add more shortcuts if your favorite combination is missing. In addition, you can specify your own keyboard shortcuts for some functions that can be easily performed with a mouse, and therefore do not appear in menus or have default keyboard shortcuts. For example, selecting and deleting words or lines in an editor.

To view all functions available in Qt Creator and the keyboard shortcuts defined for them, select Edit > Preferences > Environment > Keyboard. The shortcuts are listed by category. To find a keyboard shortcut in the list, enter a function name or shortcut in the Filter field.

The shortcuts that are displayed in red color are associated with several functions. Qt Creator executes the function that is available in the current context. If several functions are available for the same shortcut at a time, there is a conflict and Qt Creator cannot execute any function.

A keyboard shortcut might also conflict with a shortcut that a Window manager uses for its own purposes. In that case, Qt Creator shortcuts do not work. Typically, you can configure the shortcuts in the window manager, but if that is not allowed, you can change the Qt Creator shortcuts. For example, Unity on Ubuntu 11.10 uses F10 in its window manager, and therefore the default Qt Creator keyboard shortcut F10 (Step Over) does not work on that system.

To override the platform default value that determines whether keyboard shortcuts are shown in the labels of context menu items, select Edit > Preferences > Environment > Interface. The label of the Show keyboard shortcuts in context menus check box indicates whether the platform default value is on or off.

Configuring Keyboard Shortcuts

To customize a keyboard shortcut:

1. Select Edit > Preferences > Environment > Keyboard.
2. Select a command from the list.
3. In the Key Sequence field, you have the following options:
   • Enter the shortcut key you want to associate with the selected command.
   • Select Record, press the keys to use as the keyboard shortcut, and select Stop Recording when you are done.
4. To assign multiple keyboard shortcuts to a function, select Add, and enter or record an additional key combination.
5. To revert to the default shortcut, select Reset.

Qt Creator allows you to use different keyboard shortcut mapping schemes:

• To import a keyboard shortcut mapping scheme, click Import and select the .kms file containing the keyboard shortcut mapping scheme you want to import.
• To export the current keyboard shortcut mapping scheme, click Export and select the location where you want to save the exported .kms file.

Default Keyboard Shortcuts

The following tables list the default keyboard shortcuts. They are categorized by actions.

General Keyboard Shortcuts

Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

Emacs Shortcuts

You can specify shortcuts for executing actions in a way that is familiar to Emacs editor users. The actions are not bound to any key combinations by default. The following actions are available:

• Copy
• Cut
• Delete Character
• Exchange Cursor and Mark
• Go to File End
• Go to File Start
• Go to Line End
• Go to Line Start
• Go to Next Character
• Go to Next Line
• Go to Next Word
• Go to Previous Character
• Go to Previous Line
• Go to Previous Word
• Insert Line and Indent
• Kill Line
• Kill Word
• Mark
• Scroll Half Screen Down
• Scroll Half Screen Up
• Yank

Image Viewer Shortcuts

Debugging Keyboard Shortcuts

Project Keyboard Shortcuts

Help Keyboard Shortcuts

Version Control Keyboard Shortcuts