User Guide - Keyboard Shortcut#
This document describes the keyboard shortcuts in the terminal UI.
aws_resource_search
uses readchar to capture Keyboard event. It may behave differently on different OS and terminal. The following keyboard shortcuts are tested on Windows, MacOS and Linux. If you find any issue, please report it to GitHub Issues.
Query Editing and Search
⬆️: tap
Ctrl + E
orUP
to move item selection up.⏫: tap
Ctrl + R
to scroll item selection up. this is very helpful when you have a long list of search result.⬇️: tap
Ctrl + D
orDOWN
to move item selection down.⏬: tap
Ctrl + F
to scroll item selection down. this is very helpful when you have a long list of search result.⬅️: tap
LEFT
to move query input cursor to the left.➡️: tap
RIGHT
to move query input cursor to the right.⬅️: tap
LEFT
to move query input cursor to the left.➡️: tap
RIGHT
to move query input cursor to the right.⏪: tap
Alt + LEFT
to move query input cursor to the previous word.⏩: tap
Alt + Right
to move query input cursor to the next word.⏮️: tap
HOME
to move query input cursor to the beginning of the line.⏭️: tap
RIGHT
to move query input cursor to the end of the line.🗑️⏪: tap
Ctrl + K
to delete the previous word.🗑⏩: tap
Ctrl + L
to delete the next word.↩️: tap
Ctrl + X
to clear the query input. this is very helpful when you want to start over.🗑⬅: tap
BACKSPACE
to delete query input backward.🗑️➡: tap
DELETE
to delete query input forward.🔴: tap
Ctrl + C
to quit the app.
User defined action
🌐: tap
Enter
to open AWS console url in web browser. this action is available in most of AWS resource search result and detail view.📋: tap
Ctrl + A
to copy ARN (AWS Resource Name) to clipboard. in detail view, it will copy the value of the detail.🚀: tap
Ctrl + W
to perform custom user action. this is an not implemented action reserved for future extension.🔗: tap
Ctrl + U
to copy AWS console url to clipboard. this action is useful when the app environment doesn’t have a web browser.👀: tap
Ctrl + P
to view more details about this resource.⏪: tap
Ctrl + B
to clear the query of the current AWS resource type, so you can enter another query without typnig the resource type name.🚪: tap
F1
to quit the the “viewing details” sub session.
Special action
🔁: enter
!~
anytime to refresh the query cache.👀: enter
!?
anytime to view current AWS account info.📌: enter
!@
anytime to view select another AWS profile.🛠: enter
!{
anytime to view edit the${HOME}/.aws_resource_search/config.json
file.