Keyboard

You can reach every part of DunneNote from the keyboard. The same keys work for every canvas kind, so once you can move around a table, you can move around a sketch.

Three levels#

Regions. The window has a few regions: the app rail, the notebook tree, the toolbar and the page. Tab and Shift+Tab move between them. The page is a single Tab stop, so Tab never gets stuck inside a page full of canvases.

Canvases. Inside the page, each canvas is an object. The arrow keys move the selection from one canvas to the next, wrapping at the ends. Home and End jump to the first and last. Moving the selection never starts editing.

Editing. Enter enters the selected canvas. Now the keys mean what they mean for that kind of content: text in Rich Text, cells in a table, and so on. Escape leaves and returns you to the canvas as a selected object.

Only the third level differs between canvas kinds. The first two work the same everywhere.

Why Escape and not Tab#

Inside Rich Text, Tab indents a list item. Inside a table, it would be unclear whether Tab meant "next cell" or "leave". Therefore, Tab is never the way out of a canvas. Escape always is.

Inside a table#

Enter a table with Enter (or Enter table / Enter spreadsheet). The arrow keys move between cells, and Escape leaves the table. Buttons that belong to rows are kept out of the Tab order, so a table with hundreds of rows is still only one Tab stop.

The toolbar#

• F10 moves focus from the page into the toolbar. It lands on the control you used last, or on the first available one.
• Left and Right move between controls in a row, wrapping at the ends.
• Up and Down move between toolbar rows.
• Escape returns focus to where you came from.

The notebook tree#

With focus on an item in the tree, Shift+F10 opens its menu.

Common shortcuts#

Ctrl on Windows and Linux, Cmd on macOS.

Focus is always visible#

The item with keyboard focus always shows a visible focus ring, in every theme.

Related#

• Toolbars
• The canvas kinds