Keyboard shortcuts

Markion's keyboard shortcuts are registered with platform-aware modifiers. On Windows and Linux the primary modifier is Ctrl; on macOS it is Cmd (⌘). In the tables below, Ctrl stands for that platform modifier, and bindings that include Alt use Option (⌥) on macOS.

Every action below (except raw navigation/editing keys like arrows, Backspace, and Tab) can be rebound in Preferences → Shortcuts, or by editing the [shortcuts] table in config.toml (action id → GPUI keystroke string). The bindings shown here are the defaults.

Notation

Symbol	Meaning
`Ctrl`	Ctrl on Windows/Linux, Cmd (⌘) on macOS
`Alt`	Alt on Windows/Linux, Option (⌥) on macOS
`Shift`	`Shift`
+	hold the keys together

File

Action	Shortcut
New document	`Ctrl`+`N`
Open document	`Ctrl`+`O`
Open folder	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`O`
Save	`Ctrl`+`S`
Save As	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`S`
Preferences	`Ctrl`+`,`
Quit	`Ctrl`+`Q`

Tabs

Action	Shortcut
New tab (empty)	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`N`
Open file in new tab	`Ctrl`+`T`
Close tab	`Ctrl`+`W`
Next / previous tab	`Ctrl`+`Tab` / `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Tab`

Text formatting

Action	Shortcut
Bold	`Ctrl`+`B`
Italic	`Ctrl`+`I`
Inline code	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`
Insert link	`Ctrl`+`K`
Insert image	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`I`
Heading 1–6	`Ctrl`+`1` / `Ctrl`+`6`
Unordered list	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`]`
Ordered list	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`[`
Task list	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`X`
Quote	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Q`
Code block	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`K`
Indent	`Tab`
Outdent	`Shift`+`Tab`

Editing

Action	Shortcut
Undo	`Ctrl`+`Z`
Redo	`Ctrl`+`Y`
Cut / Copy / Paste	`Ctrl`+`X` / `Ctrl`+`C` / `Ctrl`+`V`
Select all	`Ctrl`+`A`
Line start / end	`Home` / `End`

View

Action	Shortcut
Cycle view mode (Edit → Visual Edit → Split → Read)	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`V`
Edit mode (source only)	`Ctrl`+`/`
Visual Edit mode (WYSIWYG-first, source-backed)	`Ctrl`+`E`
Split mode (source + preview)	`Ctrl`+`P`
Read mode (preview only)	`Ctrl`+`R`
Toggle sidebar	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`B`
Toggle focus mode	`F7`
Toggle typewriter mode	`F8`
Toggle code line numbers	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`4`
Cycle theme	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`T`

Sidebar — Files panel

Action	Shortcut
Toggle file tree	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`F`
Focus file-tree search	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`F`
Clear file-tree search	`Esc`
Refresh file tree	`F5`
New file in tree	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`N`
New folder in tree	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Shift`+`N`
Rename tree entry	`F2`
Delete tree entry	`Ctrl`+`Delete`
Open clicked file in a new tab	Ctrl+click (Cmd+click on macOS)

Sidebar — Outline panel

Action	Shortcut
Toggle outline	`F6`

Find & replace

Action	Shortcut
Find	`Ctrl`+`F`
Replace	`Ctrl`+`H`
Find next / previous	`F3` / `Shift`+`F3`

Tables

Action	Shortcut
Format table (align columns)	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`M`
Add row	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Enter`
Delete row	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Backspace`
Move row up / down	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Up` / `Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Down`
Add column	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Right`
Delete column	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Left`

Export

Action	Shortcut
Export to HTML (styled)	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`H`
Export to plain HTML	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Shift`+`H`
Export to PDF	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`P`
Export to LaTeX	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`L`
Export to DOCX	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`D`
Export to PNG	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`G`
Export to JPEG	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Shift`+`G`

Help

Action	Shortcut
Markdown Reference	`F1`

Notes

The default view mode is Visual Edit. Cycle through Edit → Visual Edit → Split → Read with Ctrl+Shift+V , or jump straight to a mode with Ctrl+//Ctrl+E/Ctrl+P/Ctrl+R. Preview width in Read mode follows the adaptive preview width preference.
Opening a file—from the file tree, drag-and-drop, Open Recent, or File → Open—targets the current tab when that is safe (an image tab, a clean untitled document, or another unmodified document) and otherwise opens a new tab, following the “Open documents in current tab” preference (on by default). A dirty document is never silently replaced, and Ctrl+click in the file tree always opens a new tab.
Focus mode dims paragraphs outside the current one; typewriter mode keeps the cursor line vertically centered.
A few bindings combine Ctrl with an Alt modifier (for example Ctrl+Alt+N for “new file in tree”); on macOS these are Cmd+Option.
If a binding does not behave as expected, check whether your window manager or OS has reserved it.