VNote Shortcuts

All the keys without special notice are case insensitive;
On macOS, Ctrl corresponds to Command except in Vim mode.

Normal Shortcuts

Ctrl+E E
Toggle expanding the edit area.
Ctrl+Alt+N
Create a note in current folder.
Ctrl+F
Find/Replace in current note.
Ctrl+Q
Quit VNote.
Ctrl+J/Ctrl+K
VNote supports Ctrl+J and Ctrl+K for navigation in the notebooks list, directories list, notes list, opened notes list, and outline list.
Ctrl+Left Mouse
Scroll in all directions.

Read Mode

Ctrl+W
Edit current note.
H/J/K/L
Navigation, corresponding to Left/Down/Up/Right arrow keys.
Ctrl+U
Scroll up half screen.
Ctrl+D
Scroll down half screen.
gg/G
Jump to the beginning or end of the note. (Case Sensitive).
Ctrl + +/-
Zoom in/out the page.
Ctrl+Wheel
Zoom in/out the page through the mouse scroll.
Ctrl+0
Recover the page zoom factor to 100%.
Jump between titles
- [[: jump to previous title;
- ]]: jump to next title;
- []: jump to previous title at the same level;
- ][: jump to next title at the same level;
- [{: jump to previous title at a higher level;
- ]}: jump to next title at a higher level;

Edit Mode

Ctrl+S
Save current changes.
Ctrl+T
Save current changes and exit edit mode.

Text Editing

Ctrl+B
Insert bold. Press Ctrl+B again to exit. Current selected text will be changed to bold if exist.
Ctrl+I
Insert italic. Press Ctrl+I again to exit. Current selected text will be changed to italic if exist.
Ctrl+D
Insert strikethrought. Press Ctrl+D again to exit. Current selected text will be changed to strikethrough if exist.
Ctrl+O
Insert inline code. Press Ctrl+O again to exit. Current selected text will be changed to inline code if exist.
Ctrl+H
Backspace. Delete a character backward.
Ctrl+W
Delete all the characters from current cursor to the first space backward.
Ctrl+U
Delete all the characters from current cursor to the beginning of current line.
Ctrl+<Num>
Insert title at level <Num>. <Num> should be 1 to 6. Current selected text will be changed to title if exist.
Tab/Shift+Tab
Increase or decrease the indentation. If any text is selected, the indentation will operate on all these selected lines.
Shift+Enter
Insert two spaces followed by a new line, namely a soft linebreak in Markdown.
Shift+Left, Shift+Right, Shift+Up, Shift+Down
Expand the selection one character left or right, or one line up or down.
Ctrl+Shift+Left, Ctrl+Shift+Right
Expand the selection to the beginning or end of current word.
Ctrl+Shift+Up, Ctrl+Sfhit+Down
Expand the selection to the beginning or end of current paragraph.
Shift+Home, Shift+End
Expand the selection to the beginning or end of current line.
Ctrl+Shift+Home, Ctrl+Shift+End
Expand the selection to the beginning or end of current note.

Custom Shortcuts

VNote supports customing some standard shortcuts, though it is not recommended. VNote stores shortcuts' configuration information in the [shortcuts] section of user configuration file vnote.ini.

For example, the default configruation may look like this:

[shortcuts]
1\operation=NewNote
1\keysequence=Ctrl+N
2\operation=SaveNote
2\keysequence=Ctrl+S
3\operation=SaveAndRead
3\keysequence=Ctrl+T
4\operation=EditNote
4\keysequence=Ctrl+W
5\operation=CloseNote
5\keysequence=
6\operation=Find
6\keysequence=Ctrl+F
7\operation=FindNext
7\keysequence=F3
8\operation=FindPrevious
8\keysequence=Shift+F3
size=8

size=8 tells VNote that there are 8 shotcuts defined here, with each beginning with the number sequence. You could change the keysequence value to change the default key sequence of a specified operation. Leave the keysequence empty (keysequence=) to disable shortcut for that operation.

Pay attention that Ctrl+E is reserved for Captain Mode and Ctrl+Q is reserved for quitting VNote.

Captain Mode

To efficiently utilize the shortcuts, VNote supports the Captain Mode.

Press the leader key Ctrl+E, then VNote will enter the Captain Mode, within which VNote supports more efficient shortcuts.

By the way, in this mode, Ctrl+W and W is equivalent, thus pressing Ctrl+E+W equals to Ctrl+E W.

E
Toggle expanding the edit area.
P
Toggle single panel or two panels mode.
T
Toggle the Tools panel.
F
Popup the opened notes list of current split window. Within this list, pressing the sequence number in front of each note could jump to that note.
X
Close current tab.
J
Jump to next tab.
K
Jump to last tab.
1 - 9
Number key 1 to 9 will jump to the tabs with corresponding sequence number.
0
Jump to previous tab. Alternate between current and previous tab.
D
Locate to the folder of current note.
Q
Discard current changes and exit edit mode.
V
Vertically split current window.
R
Remove current split window.
H
Jump to the first split window on the left.
L
Jump to the first split window on the right.
Shift+H
Move current tab one split window left.
Shift+L
Move current tab one split window right.
?
Display shortcuts documentation.

Within the Captain Mode, W will turn VNote into Navigation Mode. In this mode, VNote will display at most two characters on some major widgets, and then pressing corresponding characters will jump to that widget.

Vim Mode

VNote supports a simple but useful Vim mode, including Normal, Insert, Visual, and VisualLine modes.

VNote supports following features of Vim:

r, s, i, I, a, A, o, and O;
Actions d, c, y, p, <, >, gu, gU, and ~;
Movements h/j/k/l, gj/gk, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+D, gg, G, 0, ^, and $;
Marks a-z;
Registers ", _, +, a-z(A-Z);
Jump locations list (Ctrl+O and Ctrl+I);
Leader key (Space)
- Currently <leader>y/d/p equals to "+y/d/p, which will access the system's clipboard;
- <leader><Space> to clear search highlight;
zz, zb, zt;
u and Ctrl+R for undo and redo;
Text objects i/a: word, WORD, '', "", ` `, (), [], <>, and {};
Command line :w, :wq, :x, :q, :q!, and :nohlsearch;
Jump between titles
- [[: jump to previous title;
- ]]: jump to next title;
- []: jump to previous title at the same level;
- ][: jump to next title at the same level;
- [{: jump to previous title at a higher level;
- ]}: jump to next title at a higher level;
/ and ? to search
- n and N to find next or previous occurence;
- Ctrl+N and Ctrl+P to navigate through the search history;
Ctrl+R to read the content of a register;

For now, VNote does NOT support the macro and repeat(.) features of Vim.

Enjoy Vim on VNote!

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