Lazarus IDE Shortcuts

Key mapping

All shortcuts can be edited in Environment / Editor Options / Key mapping. See Key Mapping.

Mac OS X

Mac OS X has quite different key policies. For example most F keys are used by the OS, there are no menu Alt shortcuts and there are large guidelines (contrary to linux and windows where only a few keys work the same under all programs).

The apple human interface guidelines for key bindings can be seen here: [1]

Conflicts with default lazarus key map

Here is the list with the conflicts of the default lazarus key mapping:

Keys	Function defined by Apple	Conflict with lazarus default	Resolution
F1	misc	help	Cmd-?
Ctrl-Shift-F1	misc	help editor
Ctrl-F2	misc	stop program
F3	misc	find next	Cmd-G
Shift-F3	misc	find previous	Cmd-Shift-G
F4	misc	run to cursor
Ctrl-F4	misc	close file	Cmd-Shift-W
F5	misc	add breakpoint
Ctrl-F5	misc	add watch
Ctrl-F8	misc	jump next error
Ctrl-Shift-F8	misc	jump previous error
F7	misc	step into
Ctrl-F7	misc	evaluate
F8	misc	step over
F9	misc	run
Ctrl-F9	misc	build
F11	misc	toggle OI
Shift-F11	misc	add unit to project
Ctrl-F11	misc	open project
Ctrl-Shift-F11	misc	project options
F12	misc	toggle unit/form
Ctrl-F12	misc	view units
Shift-F12	misc	view forms
[Shift]-Up,Down,Right,Left	move cursor
Alt-[Shift]-Left/Right	jump to next word
Alt-Up/Down	jump to start/end of paragraph	find declaration
Cmd-[Shift]-Left/Right	jump to start/end of line	jump next word	Alt-Left/Right
Cmd-Up/Down	jump to start/end of file	scroll one up/down
Cmd-Shift-Up/Down	select to start/end of file	method jump
Cmd-?	show context help
Delete/Backspace	delete char
[Shift]-PageUp/Down	jump page up/down
Home/End	jump to start/end of file	jump to start/end of line
Cmd-[Shift]-Tab	switch application	jump prev/next file
Cmd-Alt-D	show/hide dock
Cmd-Ctrl-D	dictionary
Cmd-*-Space	spotlight, apple reserved
Cmd-Alt-Escape	force quit
Cmd-A	select all
Cmd-C	copy
Cmd-E	find word at cursor	incremental find	find is smart to auto use word at cursor. incremental find.
Cmd-F	find
Cmd-Alt-F	incremental search
Cmd-G	find next	goto line
Cmd-Shift-G	find previous	insert guid
Cmd-[Alt]-H	hide app	jump back
Cmd-M	minimize window
Cmd-Alt-M	minimize app
Cmd-N	new file
Cmd-O	open file
Cmd-Q	quit	goto line
Cmd-Shift-Q	log out
Cmd-S	save
Cmd-Shift-S	Save As	save all	Cmd-Alt-S
Cmd-Alt-S	Save All
Cmd-V	paste
Cmd-W	close window	word completion
Cmd-Shift-W	close file
Cmd-Alt-W	close all files
Cmd-X	cut
Cmd-Z	undo
Control	The control modifier is used by cocoa in text fields. So it is free for designer and source editor functions
Control-1-9	create special chars on some layouts	jump to bookmark
Cmd-*-1-9	apple functions like capture screen	set bookmark

XCode

XCode is Apple's own development environment. Here are the XCode shortcuts: [2]