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Listed below are keyboard shortcuts supported as of this writing:
Inbox Pane
- Ctrl + Click (Command + Click on Mac): Opens a wave as another instance in the conversation pane (i.e., the conversation pane can have more than one wave, although only one wave is visible at a time).
- Space Bar: When you select a wave in your inbox, you can hit the space bar to cycle through the blips added to the wave since you last viewed it. Note that blips are selected/highlighed in chronological order.
- Shift + Enter: Creates a new reply to the last blip on the wave currently open in the conversation pane.
Conversation Pane
- Ctrl + R: Creates a reply to the currently selected blip. This is the same function as using the Enter key.
- Ctrl + E: Edit the currently selected blip.
- Ctrl + Enter: Creates an inline reply at the cursor location within the content of a blip.
- Ctrl + Space: Marks all unread blips as read in the currently selected wave.
- Enter: Creates a reply to the currently selected blip.
- Home/End Keys: Selects the first/last blip in a wave.
- Shift + Enter: Creates a new blip as a reply to the currently selected blip in a wave. If you are editing a blip, this shortcut will save your blip (the equivalent of clicking on the "Done" button).
- Space Bar: You can hit the space bar to cycle through the blips added to the wave since you last viewed it. Note that blips are selected/highlighed in chronological order. This is the same function as hitting the space bar in the navigation pane.
- Up/Down Arrow Keys: Sequentially select blips moving up or down the list of blips in a wave.
Editing and Formatting Blips
- Ctrl + B: Makes selected text bold.
- Ctrl + G: Toggles text color control.
- Ctrl + I: Makes selected text italic.
- Ctrl + 1,2,3,or 4: Make the current line a heading, with the heading size based on the input number.
- Ctrl + 5: Add bullets to a blip.
- Ctrl + 6: Resets text formatting to normal, with the exception of bold and italic formatting.
- Ctrl + 7: Left align text.
- Ctrl + 8: Right align text.
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