Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet

Wave Navigation

Up/Down arrows use to navigate messages.

Tab/Shift-tab same as Up/Down arrows (outside edit mode)

Home/End focus first/last message

Space go to next unread message.

Left/Right arrows to switch focus between digest panel and wave panel.

Page Up/Down go to the next page in the panel [does not currently work, known bugs]

Ctrl-Space mark all messages read

Messages

Enter replies to messages: the new message will appear just below the selected message (it will be the same indentation level if it is the first reply, but indented more if a non-first reply).

Shift-Enter replies to messages at the end of thread: the new message will appear at the same indentation level, and at the BOTTOM most position.

highlight text + Enter inline reply: the new message will appear indented and INSIDE the current message.

Ctrl-R same as enter

Ctrl-E edit message

Ctrl-Enter (while editing) insert inline reply at caret

Text Editing

Ctrl-B toggles bold attributes for selected text

Ctrl-I toggles italics attributes for selected text

Ctrl-G Color

Ctrl-L Links to another Wave (highlight text, hit CTRL-L and put in a URL or a Wave ID (see Debug menu for ID's) [NOTE: we will soon change the key combo]

Tab Indents entire paragraph.

Shift-Tab Unindents entire paragraph.

Copy/Paste

Ctrl-C copy the selected text.

Ctrl-X cut the selected text.

Ctrl-V paste the text from the text buffer.

Structural Formatting

Ctrl-<n> Make the current line a heading, where n = 1..4 for different sized headings.

Ctrl-5 Bullets

Ctrl-6 Normal (removes heading/bullet style, but not bold/italic etc. current visual glitch in some browsers where text stays big - but this is not persistent.)

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