Keyboard shortcuts

Press ⌘/ in the app to see all shortcuts, including any you changed.

General

Shortcut	Action
⌘K	Command palette (in a terminal, ⌘K clears it)
⌘,	Settings
⌘/	Keyboard shortcuts
⇧⌘T	Toggle light/dark theme
⌘Q	Quit (asks first if agents are running)

Threads

Shortcut	Action
⌘N	New thread in the current project
⌥⌘N	New chat without a project
⌘W	Close tab
⌘1 … ⌘8, ⌘9	Go to tab 1–8, last tab
⇧⌘] / ⇧⌘[	Next / previous tab
⌃Tab	Most recent thread
⌘[ / ⌘]	Back / forward
⌘\	Split chat
⌥⌘S	New side chat
⇧⌘K	Fork thread
⌘I	Import sessions (Claude Code, Codex)
⌘L	Focus the message box
⌘F	Find in thread (message box focused)
⌃C	Stop the agent (message box focused)
⇧⌘R	Code review inbox

Projects and files

Shortcut	Action
⇧⌘O	Add project
⌘O	Open in external editor
⌘P	Find file
⇧⌘F	Search in files
⌘S	Save (Files tab)

Panels

Shortcut	Action
⌘B	Toggle sidebar
⌥⌘B	Toggle tools panel
⇧⌘G	Changes
⇧⌘E	Files
⇧⌘B	Browser
⇧⌘I	Context and notes
⌘J	Toggle terminal
⇧⌘J	Full-width terminal
⌥⌘T	Task board
⌥⌘A	Automations

Git

Shortcut	Action
⌃⌘P	Commit and push
⌥↓ / ⌥↑	Next / previous change in a diff

Terminal

Shortcut	Action
⌘T	New terminal
⇧⌘W	Close terminal
⇧⌘] / ⇧⌘[	Next / previous terminal
⌘D	Split terminal
⌘F	Search scrollback (Enter / ⌘G older, ⇧Enter / ⇧⌘G newer)
⌘K	Clear
⌘C / ⌘V / ⌘A	Copy / paste / select all

More terminal keys are in Terminal.

Message box

Keys	Action
Enter	Send (or queue while the agent works)
Shift+Enter	New line
↑ / ↓ (empty box)	Earlier messages
/	Commands
@	Mention a file or subagent
↑ / ↓, Enter or Tab, Escape	Move, pick and close in the `/` and `@` lists

Changing shortcuts

Shortcuts are read from ~/.elyra/keybindings.json at launch. In the shortcuts sheet (⌘/), Edit… creates the file with every shortcut's id and default keys, and opens it. Change the keys you want, delete the lines you don't need, and restart Elyra Workspace.

{
  "find_file": "cmd-shift-p",
  "command_palette": "cmd-k",
  "terminal": null
}

Keys are written like cmd-shift-p, ctrl-tab, alt-down. Modifiers are cmd, ctrl, alt and shift. Separate a sequence of keystrokes with a space.
null or "" removes a shortcut.
Ids you don't list keep their default. Invalid keys are skipped and noted in the log.