Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in the RStudio IDE

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  Gregory Dougherty August 13, 2015 19:46

  How do I set a keybinding for a menu command? IOW I want F2 to do Cut, F3 to do Copy, and F4 to do Paste. I want to continue to allow cmd-X/C/V to continue to work as well. Is this possible in RStudio?

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  Kevin Ushey August 19, 2015 17:12

  Hi Gregory,

  We currently don't allow users to rebind Cut / Copy / Paste, primarily due to some difficulties in getting this to work cross-platform and cross-browser. I'll see if this is something we can accommodate this in a future release.

  Thanks,
  Kevin

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  Alain Content August 30, 2015 14:04

  Is it possible to assign shortcuts to user scripts ?

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  Alexander Martin Loewi September 08, 2015 20:05

  I haven't been able to get Ctrl+P, "Move Upwards One Line," to work (an extremely important command to me, with bad wrist problems, and heavily dependent on keyboard navigation). I re-assigned Jump Between Brackets (which masks Ctrl+P), and then it gets un-crossed-out just fine -- but the command itself still doesn't work, even though it shows up in the .json. OTHER remappings are okay -- I reassigned Ctrl+G to be "Go To Line ..." and had no problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  Best,

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  Michał Bojanowski September 15, 2015 07:50

  Oh yes! Thank you for that!

  The following RStudio keyboard shortcuts are not usable when writing in Polish: Ctrl+Alt+[a,c,e,n,o,s,z,x] as AltGr = Ctrl + LeftAlt. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#Polish, and also google-translated Polish version https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr

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  Kevin Ushey September 15, 2015 11:49

  Hi Alain,

  Mapping keyboard shortcuts to user scripts is something we have in the pipeline, but we haven't yet completed that work. Stay tuned!

  Best,
  Kevin

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  Kevin Ushey September 15, 2015 11:51

  Hi Alexander,

  Thanks for reporting! This is a bug, and it should be fixed in the latest daily versions of RStudio -- if you have a chance, would you be willing to give it a try?

  https://dailies.rstudio.com/

  Alternatively, you can try turning on Emacs keybindings (available at Tools -> Global Options... -> Code -> Editing, which should ensure that Ctrl+P is appropriately mapped.

  Thanks,
  Kevin

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  Alexander Martin Loewi September 15, 2015 18:49

  Hi Kevin,

  Thanks a ton for the help.

  In the new build I can use Ctrl+P fine, but suddenly 'Up' doesn't work, and I only have one spot to map Move Upwards (instead of two from an earlier build, which allowed both Up AND Ctrl+P).

  But Emacs mode works great (thanks for the tip), and it plays well with the other custom bindings.

  Thanks again -- I've been waiting for this feature for a long time.

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  Kevin Ushey September 15, 2015 19:05

  Hi Alexander,

  Thanks for the bug report! I'll see what's going on and whether we can improve the situation here. Worst case scenario, you should be able to reset your keybindings (Ctrl-P is a default 'fall-back' keybinding for move up) so it should be restored following that (after which you can move 'jumpToMatching' out of the way).

  Best,
  Kevin

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  Valerio Biscione October 05, 2015 14:01

  Hi Kevin,
  Is there any way to customize debugging shortcut?

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  Kevin Ushey October 06, 2015 13:08

  Hi Valerio,

  Unfortunately, the debugging shortcuts are not yet customizable -- I've filed an issue for our development team and we'll see what we can do down the road.

  Best,
  Kevin

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  Gregory Dougherty October 06, 2015 16:09

  Hi Kevin,

  Any news on getting Cut Copy Paste support? That's one of my absolute "must haves" for a development environment, so I'm really hoping RStudio can add it.

  Thank you,
  Greg

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  Filipescorrea December 16, 2015 17:09

  Hi Kevin,

  After a while all my keyboard shortcuts stopped to work. I didn't do anything to change any configuration. Could it be any bug with the new released version? I have tryied to reinstall RStudio but I kept with the same problem, even after erasing the all the files in "%localappdata%\RStudio-Desktop".

  Best,

  Filipe

  Edited by Filipescorrea December 16, 2015 17:10
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  robertob January 23, 2016 21:26

  Is the ask by @Valerio above pertaining to Debug menu options?

  If so then i 2nd that ask because i wanted to customize all the debug run keyboard shortcuts to align with my vstudio experience so i could move between vstudio and rstudio using same debugging keys.

  I'm finding i cannot customize any of those menu options in order to achieve that result.  If it makes a difference i would be fine if initially support for this was provided by having to manually add entries %userprofile%\Documents\.R\rstudio\keybindings | editor_bindings.json or rstudio_bindings.json

  Also any work on the backlog to have keyboard shortcut customizations displayed in menus after you restart rstudio so you are shown current keyboard shortcuts in effect and not the defaults?

  Edited by robertob January 23, 2016 21:38
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  robertob January 23, 2016 21:31

  fyi

  with my windows 10 environment i was looking for customized keyboard shortcut settings under %appdata%/Rstudio and %localappdata%/RStudio-Desktop and couldn't find any rstudio_commands.json or editor_commands.json files there.  

  i did find them both under %userprofile%\Documents\.R\rstudio\keybindings.

  Edited by robertob January 23, 2016 21:36
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  matthewsigal February 08, 2016 17:59

  I am trying to set a keyboard shortcut for File -> New File -> R Markdown document, but I can't seem to find the listing in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialogue box? Is there any way to set this shortcut?

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  lincolnfrias February 09, 2016 18:21

  Hi,

  Is it possible to use a shortcut to minimize panels?

  By the way, the shortcuts are great and it awesome to be able to customize them. Congrats!
  
  

  Edited by lincolnfrias February 09, 2016 18:23
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  pmmwaniki06 February 10, 2016 06:40

  Hi,
  Is it possible to create an editor shortcut for inserting %in% into ones code similar to how %>% is inserted with Ctrl-Shift-M

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  GoDa February 15, 2016 12:20

  Hi,

  I recently updated RStudio for Windows via the RStudio website mainly due to interest in the new features of the most recent version 0.99.878. Unfortunaly after the installation some important hotkeys behave different in the source editor, while they still work in the Console. I.e.

  `Ctrl` + `S` starts an "isearch"
  `Ctrl` + `V` jumps to the end of the document

  When I enter `Ctrl` + `X` + (`S` or `V`) the hotkeys work as they should. The hotkeys can be costumized, however when I open the Keyboard Sortcuts dialog it shows me the settings for the hotkeys. Also the cursor has turned to a shiny green rectangle (`insert` isn't activated).

  The problems remains after switching the project. Also reinstalling Rstudio 0.99.878 didn't work out. Might I have accidently activated a special editor setting, of which I'm not aware yet?

  Thanks,
  David

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  Kevin Ushey February 15, 2016 20:10

  Hi David,

  It sounds like you've activated Emacs mode -- try going to Tools -> Global Options... -> Code, and change Keybindings from Emacs back to Default.

  Thanks,
  Kevin

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  Kevin Ushey February 15, 2016 20:12

  Hi pmmwaniki06,

  It's now possible to do this through the RStudio Addins system -- please see https://rstudio.github.io/rstudioaddins/ for more details; in particular, this is an addin that implements the behavior you're looking for:

  https://github.com/rstudio/addinexamples/blob/master/R/insertInAddin.R

  Best,
  Kevin

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  GoDa February 17, 2016 10:17

  Hi Kevin,

  thanks a lot that was indeed what happend.

  All the best,
  David

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  Michaël Gras March 17, 2016 11:59

  Hi Kevin,

  I would like to use F5 instead of ctrl+R to run my R code in RStudio. I guess it could be done by a modification of ctrl+R or by creating an alias of ctrl+R. Would you have any idea how I can do that?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Michaël

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  Kevin Ushey March 17, 2016 16:40

  Hi Michael,

  There is a command called 'Run Current Line or Selection', which is normally bound to 'Cmd + Enter'. You should be able to rebind this to F5, and then typing F5 will executed that command.

  Best,
  Kevin

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  Michaël Gras March 17, 2016 16:52

  Hi Kevin,

  Thanks for your help, it's done and it works perfectly well.

  Regards

  Michaël

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  Brice Leclère March 24, 2016 13:08

  Hi Kevin,

  Is it possible to change the '<-' shortcut (alt-)? It interferes with my keyboard layout (bépo, a French equivalent to dvorak) and I cannot type an underscore without switching to another kb layout first.

  Many thanks in advance,
  Brice

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  Pierre Gramme March 30, 2016 14:28

  Hi Kevin and the team,

  Maybe a dumb question: on Ubuntu, how can I differentiate between Ctrl and Cmd keys?

  I would like to use the standard Ctrl+Y shortcut for "Redo". But when I type it, it gets interpreted as "Insert Yanked Text" (as I guess from the shortcut quick ref).

  Can I disable this shortcut for "Insert Yanked Text" even if it's not listed in the dialog box? Can I assign Ctrl+Y to "Redo"?

  Thanks
  Pierre

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  Kevin Ushey March 30, 2016 17:47

  Hi Pierre,

  This is an unfortunate limitation in the current version of RStudio, as the various 'yank' commands are hard-coded to these bindings (and have been for some time). We plan to resolve this for the next release.

  Thanks,
  Kevin

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  Pierre Gramme March 30, 2016 21:29

  Ok, no problem. Thanks for the explanation!
  And about the difference between Ctrl and Cmd: is it only available on a Mac?

  Pierre

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  Kevin Ushey March 31, 2016 22:09

  Hi Pierre,

  The nomenclature here is a bit confusing, unfortunately -- within the keyboard shortcuts dialog, 'Cmd' implies either the 'Ctrl' or 'Meta' keys (for non-Mac systems). We'll look into improving the display of information here.

  Best,
  Kevin