Keyboard shortcuts

Conductor is keyboard-first. The shortcuts below use ⌘ on macOS; on Linux/Windows, Ctrl substitutes for ⌘.

All shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
`⌘K`	Open / close the command palette
`⌘1`–`⌘9`	Switch to tab 1–9 by its position in the tab bar
`⌘R`	Start the active project's dev command
`⇧⌘F`	Search all terminals (global scrollback search)
`⌘⌥` ←↑↓→	Move focus between split panes
`⌘⌥Z`	Zoom / unzoom the active pane
`⌘D`	Split the active pane right
`⇧⌘D`	Split the active pane down
`⌘W`	Close the active pane (or close the editor when it is focused)
`⌘B`	Toggle the file sidebar
`⌘P`	Find files / search file contents
`⌘T`	Toggle the database explorer
`⌘G`	Open the Git panel
`⌘S`	Save the file (when the editor is focused)
`⌘F`	Find in terminal (when a terminal is focused)
`⌘↵`	Commit (in the commit dialog)
`⌘/`	Show the keyboard-shortcuts help

Open the in-app reference any time with ⌘/.

Editor focus changes the rules

While keyboard focus is inside the Monaco editor, the editor owns all of its usual keys — ⌘F find, ⌘/ toggle comment, ⌘D multi-cursor, ⌘K chords, and so on — and Conductor's pane shortcuts step aside. The only app shortcut kept while editing is ⌘W, which closes the editor.

Move focus back to a terminal pane (click it) to restore the pane shortcuts.

Switching & reordering tabs

Jump straight to a tab with ⌘1–⌘9 (the number is the tab's position in the bar, left to right). Drag a tab sideways to reorder it — a blue insertion marker shows where it will land, and the ⌘-number shortcuts follow whatever order you choose.

Modified Enter in terminals

Inside a terminal, ⇧↵ inserts a newline instead of submitting — Conductor sends the Kitty CSI u sequence so TUIs (such as the Elyra CLI) can tell ⇧↵ apart from a plain ↵. ⌥↵ and ⌃↵ are forwarded the same way. (Plain xterm.js collapses all of these to a bare carriage return, which is why this needs Conductor's help.)

Terminal find bar

When a terminal is focused, ⌘F opens an in-terminal find bar instead of passing the keystroke to the shell:

↵ — next match
⇧↵ — previous match
Esc — close the find bar

Pane hover controls

Beyond the shortcuts, each pane has hover controls in its top-right corner (split right, split down, close), and the dividers between panes are drag-to-resize.

Command palette — actions without a dedicated shortcut.
Terminals & panes — splitting and search in context.

¶Keyboard shortcuts

¶All shortcuts

¶Editor focus changes the rules

¶Switching & reordering tabs

¶Modified Enter in terminals

¶Terminal find bar

¶Pane hover controls

¶Related