HOTKEYS


Here are a list of all keyboard shortcuts that we know about. Some of them are undocumented in the official manual. Also, depending on your OS or Browser (for Education Edition) some shortcuts won't work as described here. These are based on the Windows version and common browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Brave.

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Command Line


ctrl + C Copy text in command line.
ctrl + C (after receiving error message) Copy the full error.

While in Any Editor


alt + ←/→ Switch between PICO-8 editors.
ctrl + R Run game.
ctrl + S Save game.

Code Editor


Standard Shortcuts
ctrl + X Cut selected text to clipboard.
ctrl + C Copy selected text to clipboard.
ctrl + V Paste text from clipboard.
ctrl + Z Undo last edit.
ctrl + Y Redo last edit undone.

Move Cursor/View
ctrl + W/E Jump to the start/end of a line.
home / end Jump to start/end of line.
ctrl + home/end Jump to start/end of code tab.
alt + ↑/↓ Jump to last/next function.
ctrl + ↑/↓ Jump to start/end of code tab.
ctrl + ←/→ Jump to last/next (word, number, symbol).
ctrl + tab Next code tab.
ctrl + shift + tab Back code tab.
mousewheel scroll vertically
ctrl + mousewheel scroll horizontally
ctrl + L Find and jump to line number.

Select Text
click + drag Select specific text.
double click Select full (word, number, symbol).
triple click Select entire line.
shift + ↑/↓/←/→ Select from cursor position to new cursor position.
shift + home/end Select from cursor position to start or end of line.
ctrl + shift + ↑/↓ Select from cursor position to start/end of code tab.
ctrl + A Select all in current tab.

Text Manipulation
ctrl + D Duplicate line.
ctrl + 1 Move line up.
ctrl + 2 Move line down.

Comments
ctrl + B

Comment / Uncomment the current line.

(Works for multiple lines, if all lines are the same.)


Search
ctrl + F Search/Find in current tab.
ctrl + G Repeat the search to next instance in current tab.

Help
ctrl + U See help description of keyword. (text cursor must be on keyword)

Auto Complete
shift + enter Automatically complete the block of code with an end. (text cursor must be after certain keywords)

Limitation Displays (bottom right corner)
left click change limitation displayed
right click turn off warning flashing light
ctrl + click (on character limit) switch to tweet characters. (glyphs counted as 2 characters)
ctrl + click (on capacity limit) switch to real time updates in bytes.

Fonts
ctrl + P (puny font) Enable lowercase PICO-8 letters
ctrl + J Japanese Hiragana
ctrl + K Japanese Katakana

Does not work in Browsers ( Education Edition )
Key Press Supposed to What it does
ctrl + W jump to start of line closes browser tab
alt + ←/→ switch editors moves cursor
alt + ↑/↓ jump to last/next function moves cursor
ctrl + tab switch code tabs switch browser tabs





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