# 3.8. Key bindings

KHexEdit honors the following key bindings.

Control-Space

  Toggle the cursor between primary and secondary data area

Insert

  Toggle between Insert and Overwrite mode

Left Arrow

  Move the cursor one character leftwards

Right Arrow

  Move the cursor one character rightwards

Up Arrow

  Move the cursor one line upwards

Down Arrow

  Move the cursor one line downwards

Page Up

  Move the cursor one page upwards

Page Down

  Move the cursor one page downwards

Backspace

  Delete the character to the left of the cursor

Home

  Move the cursor to the beginning of the line

End

  Move the cursor to the end of the line

Control-End

  Move the cursor to the end of the document

Control-Home

  Move the cursor to the start of the document

Control-Left Arrow

  Move the cursor to the previous character (eg, previous bit)

Control-Right Arrow

  Move the cursor to the next character (eg, next bit)

Delete

  Delete the character to the right of the cursor

Shift-Left Arrow

  Mark text one character leftwards

Shift-Right Arrow

  Mark text one character rightwards

Shift-Up Arrow

  Mark text one line downwards

Shift-Down Arrow

  Mark text one line upwards

Shift-End

  Mark text to end of line

Shift-Home

  Mark text to start of line

Shift-Page Up

  Mark text one page up

Shift-Page Down

  Mark text one page down

Shift-Control-End

  Mark text to end of document

Shift-Control-Home

  Mark text to start start of document

Control-N

  Create a new empty unnamed document

Control-O

  Open the file manager

Control-I

  Open the file manager for inserting a file

Control-S

  Save active document

Control-A

  Rename active document

Control-W

  Close active document

Control-P

  Print active document

Control-Q

  Terminate KHexEdit

Control-Z

  Undo edit operation

Control-Y

  Redo edit operation

Control-C

  Copy selected data to clipboard

Control-V

  Paste clipboard contents to active document

Control-X

  Delete the marked text, copy to clipboard

Control-G

  Go to a given offset

Control-F

  Find

F3

  Find again

Control-R

  Find and replace

Control-Insert

  Insert data

Control-B

  Add a bookmark

Control-E

  Replace a bookmark

Control-U

  Remove a bookmark

Alternate-<0-9>

  Goto a bookmark

Control-<0-9>

  Raise document

Alternate-<Left Arrow>

  Raise previous document

Alternate-<Right Arrow>

  Raise next document

F1

  Activate help