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.

Scope tabs. A tab strip under the search box narrows what you're searching:

Tab	Searches	Picking a result
Commands	Everything above (the default)	Runs it
Entities	Named entities in the open scene	Selects the entity
Settings	Settings tabs	Opens Settings on that tab
Docs	renzora.com documentation (live search)	Opens the page in your browser
Forum	Forum threads	Opens the thread in the Forum panel
Users	Community members	Opens their profile
Feed	Recent community-feed posts	Opens the post, comments expanded
Courses	Learning courses	Opens the Docs panel
Marketplace	Store assets (server-side search)	Opens the marketplace overlay

The remote tabs (Docs → Marketplace) query renzora.com as you type, debounced; Docs/Forum/Users want at least two characters, while Feed/Courses/Marketplace list their latest content even with an empty query.

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

Hierarchy

These act on the selected row, and only while the Hierarchy is the panel you last clicked in — so the same keys stay free for the 2D nudge in the viewport, frame-stepping in the Timeline, and arrow-key panel scrolling everywhere else.

Key	Action
↑ / ↓	Move the selection to the previous / next visible row
→	Expand the selected branch; step into its first child if it's already open
←	Collapse the selected branch; step out to the parent if it's already closed
F2	Rename in place (double-click does the same)

↑/↓ walk what you can see: a collapsed branch is stepped past, not through, and the list scrolls to follow the selection when it reaches an edge. Shift+↑/↓ doesn't extend the selection — use Shift+click for a range.

Clicking a row also folds it open (and shut again when the click deselects it). Turn that off at Settings → Interface → Hierarchy → Toggle on Click to leave folding entirely to the caret and these two keys.

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; also saves the open material graph when the Material Graph panel is a visible tab (material_graph.save, rebindable)
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+Space	Toggle bottom panel — slides open to 40% of the editor's height
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, Ctrl+Space) — 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).