Keyboard Shortcuts

Every default editor shortcut, the command palette, and how to rebind keys to your liking.

Shortcuts are an editor-only feature. They live in the renzora_keybindings crate (KeybindingsPlugin), and the action/binding types are defined in renzora::core::keybindings (EditorAction, KeyBinding, KeyBindings) so other editor plugins can dispatch them. Because the whole editor ships as the removable renzora_editor bundle, none of these bindings exist in an exported game.

The fastest way to find any command is the command palette — press Ctrl+P and start typing. It lists every tool, action, panel, and layout with its current keybinding, so you rarely need to memorize the tables below.

Command palette

Press Ctrl+P to open the command palette (renzora_command_palette). It is a fuzzy-searchable modal that aggregates, with zero per-plugin wiring:

• Registered tools from the toolbar (only those visible in the current context).
• Plugin shortcuts registered via register_shortcut, each showing its current binding.
• Every built-in editor action (the EditorAction enum), shown with its key and dispatched exactly as a real key press.
• Layouts — Switch to <Workspace>.
• Panels — Open <Panel> (focuses it if already docked).
• Settings tabs, File menu commands, and Documentation links.

Key	Action
Ctrl+P	Open / close the palette
Type	Filter by label or category
Up / Down	Move selection
Enter	Run the selected command
Esc	Dismiss

Camera

Movement keys are active only while you hold the right mouse button to fly. The same W E Q letters switch gizmo tools when you are not flying (see below) — they never conflict because flying gates them.

Key	Action
W A S D	Fly forward / left / back / right (hold right-click)
E / Q	Fly up / down (hold right-click)
Left Shift	Fly faster (hold)
F	Focus selected
Home	Reset camera
A	Frame all
End	Move camera to cursor
] / [	Camera speed up / down
L	Toggle pivot lock

View angles

Blender-style numpad views; the Ctrl modifier gives the opposite view.

Key	Action
Numpad 1 / Ctrl+Numpad 1	Front / Back
Numpad 3 / Ctrl+Numpad 3	Right / Left
Numpad 7 / Ctrl+Numpad 7	Top / Bottom
Numpad 5	Toggle perspective / orthographic

Tools

These set the persistent gizmo handle (ActiveTool). They fire only when the right mouse button is not held and no modal transform is in progress.

Key	Action
Q	Select
W	Translate (move)
E	Rotate
R	Scale

Modal transforms (Blender-style)

With at least one entity selected (and the viewport in Scene mode), these start a real-time modal transform driven by mouse movement.

Key	Action
G	Grab (move)
R	Rotate
S	Scale

While a modal transform is active:

Key	Action
X / Y / Z	Constrain to that axis
Shift+X / Shift+Y / Shift+Z	Constrain to the opposite plane
Type digits / . / -	Enter a precise value
Enter or left-click	Confirm
Esc or right-click	Cancel

Selection

Mouse picking happens in the viewport; the keyboard handles the rest.

Input	Action
Left-click	Select (replace)
Ctrl+Click	Toggle selection
Shift+Click	Add to selection
Left-drag	Box (marquee) select
Esc	Deselect all
Ctrl+A	Select all
X	Select under cursor
V	Move selection to cursor
Ctrl+D	Duplicate
Alt+D	Duplicate and move (starts a modal grab)
Delete	Delete
F2	Rename
H / Shift+H	Hide selected / isolate selected

Edit

Key	Action
Ctrl+Z	Undo
Ctrl+Y	Redo
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V	Copy / Paste
Ctrl+A	Create node

Undo/redo are command-based (renzora_undo). Redo defaults to Ctrl+Y — there is no Ctrl+Shift+Z binding out of the box. History is per-context (scene, material graph, blueprint, …), depth-capped at 500, and exposed in the History panel.

File

Key	Action
Ctrl+N	New scene
Ctrl+O	Open scene
Ctrl+S	Save scene
Ctrl+Shift+S	Save scene as
Ctrl+,	Open Settings

View

Key	Action
Alt+Z	Toggle wireframe
Alt+Shift+Z	Toggle lighting
Ctrl+G	Toggle grid
Ctrl+`	Toggle bottom panel
T	Toggle snap
Shift+T	Toggle edge snap
Alt+T	Toggle scale-from-bottom
Ctrl+0	Reset UI scale to 100%

Wireframe is Alt+Z (not bare Z) and lighting is Alt+Shift+Z. Plain Z was dropped because it clashed with Ctrl+Z and the gizmo tool keys.

Play

Key	Action
F5	Play / Stop

Code editor

These apply when the Code panel has keyboard focus (category "Code Editor"). Several reuse chords that mean something else in the viewport (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+G, Ctrl+D) — focus decides which action fires.

Key	Action
Ctrl+S / Ctrl+Shift+S	Save file / save all
Ctrl+W	Close tab
Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab	Next / previous tab
Ctrl+F / Ctrl+H	Find / replace
Ctrl+G	Go to line
Ctrl+/ / Ctrl+Shift+/	Toggle line / block comment
Ctrl+Space	Trigger autocomplete
Ctrl+D	Select next occurrence
Ctrl+Shift+D	Duplicate line
Ctrl+Shift+K	Delete line
Alt+Up / Alt+Down	Move line up / down
Ctrl+Alt+Up / Ctrl+Alt+Down	Add cursor above / below
Shift+Esc	Clear extra cursors
F12	Go to definition
Ctrl+Shift+F	Format document
Ctrl+Alt+D	Show diff vs saved
Ctrl+Shift+[	Toggle fold
Ctrl+\	Split editor right

Customizing shortcuts

Open Settings → Shortcuts (or Ctrl+, then the Shortcuts tab) to rebind any action. Each binding is a key plus the Ctrl / Shift / Alt modifiers, and modifier matching is exact — Ctrl+S will not fire if Shift is also held. Rebound keys are respected everywhere, including the command palette and programmatic dispatches.

Some defaults intentionally overlap: A is both Frame All and the fly-left key, and Ctrl+A is both Select All and Create Node. Context (whether you are flying, what panel is focused, what is selected) decides which one runs. If a chord feels ambiguous, rebind it here.

Plugin shortcuts

Plugins add their own commands through the editor SDK, and they appear in the command palette and the Shortcuts settings automatically. Register a ShortcutEntry with a default KeyBinding:

use bevy::prelude::*;
use renzora::core::keybindings::KeyBinding;
use renzora_editor_framework::{AppEditorExt, ShortcutEntry};

fn build(app: &mut App) {
    app.register_shortcut(ShortcutEntry::new(
        "my_plugin.do_thing",          // stable id
        "Do The Thing",                // display name
        "My Plugin",                   // category
        KeyBinding::new(KeyCode::KeyP).ctrl().shift(),
        |world: &mut World| {
            // handler runs with full &mut World access
        },
    ));
}

The id is stable so user-customized bindings survive plugin reloads. This is exactly how the command palette itself registers Ctrl+P (command_palette.toggle).