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A chord added in config wins a tie only against another app-wide action.
Copy, paste, find, clear scrollback and insert newline are bound in the
Terminal context, which is deeper, so they keep their chord while a
terminal is focused. Also tells people upgrading that a shortcut recorded
in Settings up to 26.9.2 was saved as a string. It now adds instead of
replacing, and a list brings back the old meaning.

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---
title: "Keybindings"
description: "Rebinding anything, chord sequences, and the tmux preset."
---
**Settings → Keybindings** (<kbd>⌘ ,</kbd>) lists every shortcut in the app,
grouped the same way the command palette is. The search box at the top of
Settings reaches this page too: type what a feature is called — `split`,
`commit`, `sftp` — and the page narrows to the shortcuts for it. Action names
work as well as labels, so a binding you read about in `keybindings.json` is
one search away from the row that sets it.
## Rebinding
Click a shortcut and press the new keys. It saves after a brief pause.
| | |
|---|---|
| Press keys | Set the binding |
| Press more keys | Chain a sequence — <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> then <kbd>X</kbd> |
| <kbd>Esc</kbd> | Cancel |
| <kbd>⌫</kbd> | Remove the last key — or, pressed first, reset the shortcut to its default |
**Restore all defaults** at the bottom undoes every rebinding at once. There is
no undo for that one.
<Frame caption="Placeholder — screenshot: the Keybindings page mid-capture, showing “Press keys…”">
<img src="/images/placeholder.svg" alt="Rebinding a shortcut" />
</Frame>
## Actions with no default key
Some actions ship deliberately unbound, because there is no obvious key left to
take: pane resize and swap, workspace selection, most git commands, SFTP, and
the panel tabs. They are all in the command palette, and all bindable here.
## Editing `config.json` instead
```json
{
"keybindings": {
"NextTab": "cmd-shift-]",
"SplitRight": ["cmd-d"],
"ResizePaneLeft": "ctrl-alt-left",
"ToggleFullscreen": ""
}
}
```
An action's value takes one of two shapes:
| Value | Means |
|---|---|
| `"cmd-shift-]"` | **Add** this shortcut. The default keeps working — <kbd>⌃ ⇥</kbd> still switches tabs |
| `["cmd-d"]` | **Replace**: exactly these shortcuts, nothing else. List several to have several |
| `""` or `[]` | **Unbind** the action |
Recording a shortcut on the Settings page replaces, so it writes the list
shape. A shortcut you add that another action already uses is the one that
runs. The exception is the terminal's own shortcuts: copy, paste, find, clear
scrollback and insert newline keep theirs while a terminal has focus.
Up to 26.9.2 a string replaced the default, and the Settings page wrote
strings. So a shortcut you recorded in those versions now works *beside* the
default it was meant to replace. To drop the default again, record the shortcut again
or wrap it in a list: `"NewTab": ["cmd-shift-n"]`.
The syntax is modifiers joined by `-`, then the key. Chords are separated by a
space.
| Token | Means |
|---|---|
| `secondary` | <kbd>⌘</kbd> on macOS, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> elsewhere |
| `cmd` · `ctrl` · `alt` · `shift` | Literal modifiers |
| `ctrl-b n` | A two-key sequence |
An unknown action name or an invalid keystroke is skipped with a warning in the
log rather than breaking the rest of your bindings.
The full action list is on the [keyboard shortcuts](/reference/keyboard-shortcuts)
page.
## The tmux preset
**Settings → Keybindings → Preset → tmux** remaps pane and tab actions onto a
prefix — <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> by default, changeable in the **Prefix** field beside
it.
| | |
|---|---|
| <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> <kbd>C</kbd> · <kbd>X</kbd> | New tab · close tab |
| <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> <kbd>%</kbd> · <kbd>"</kbd> | Split right · split down |
| <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> <kbd>←→↑↓</kbd> | Move focus |
| <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> <kbd>⌃ ←→↑↓</kbd> | Resize the pane |
| <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> <kbd>O</kbd> · <kbd>;</kbd> | Next pane · previous pane |
| <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> <kbd>&#123;</kbd> · <kbd>&#125;</kbd> | Swap with the previous · next pane |
| <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> <kbd>Z</kbd> | Zoom the pane |
| <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> <kbd>N</kbd> · <kbd>P</kbd> | Next tab · previous tab |
| <kbd>⌃ B</kbd> <kbd>1</kbd>…<kbd>9</kbd> | Jump to a tab |
Two details that make it livable:
- A **bare prefix** reaches the shell after about a second, so <kbd>⌃ B</kbd>
still works as "back one character" when you meant it.
- **Prefix plus an unbound key** is passed straight through to the terminal, so
a tmux binding you did not remap still lands in whatever is running.
## Some non-obvious defaults
| | |
|---|---|
| <kbd>⇧ ⏎</kbd> · <kbd>⌥ ⏎</kbd> | Insert a newline at the prompt instead of submitting (`InsertNewline`) |
| <kbd>⌘ ⇧ ⏎</kbd> | Zoom the focused pane |
| <kbd>⌘ ⇧ E</kbd> | Toggle the code panel |
| <kbd>⌘ ⇧ R</kbd> | Restart the SSH session in this pane |
| <kbd>⌘ ⇧ O</kbd> | Workspace switcher |
| <kbd>⌘ ⇧ N</kbd> | New workspace |