Keyboard Shortcuts

Tabularis ships with a set of keyboard shortcuts for common actions across navigation, the editor, and the data grid. All shortcuts use Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Windows/Linux.

Navigation

Editor

Notebook

Data Grid

Cell navigation is bound to the grid you last interacted with, so a notebook with one grid per SQL cell does not move them all at once. Keys are left alone inside text inputs, open cell editors, the foreign-key and BLOB buttons, and the sortable column headers. See Data Grid → Keyboard Navigation.

Customizing Shortcuts

Most shortcuts can be reassigned from Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts. Each row in the table shows:

• A lock icon for built-in shortcuts that cannot be changed (Monaco editor bindings, browser-level shortcuts).
• An Edit button for customizable shortcuts.

Click Edit on any customizable row, then press the key combination you want to assign. The recorder captures modifier keys (Cmd/Ctrl, Shift, Alt) plus the final key. Press Escape to cancel. Changes are saved immediately to keybindings.json in your config directory.

To revert a customized shortcut to its default, click the ↺ (reset) button on its row.

keybindings.json

Tabularis stores your overrides in a JSON file in the OS config directory:

The file is only created when you first customize a shortcut. Its format is a map from shortcut ID to platform-specific KeyMatch objects:

{
  "toggle_sidebar": {
    "mac": { "metaKey": true, "key": "k" },
    "win": { "ctrlKey": true, "key": "k" }
  },
  "new_tab": {
    "mac": { "metaKey": true, "key": "n" },
    "win": { "ctrlKey": true, "key": "n" }
  }
}

Each KeyMatch supports the following fields:

You can edit this file manually if you prefer. Tabularis reads it at startup; changes while the app is running take effect after a restart.