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
[Cmd]-F	A few F key combos are free, but this seems to depend on version and layout. So better not use them.	F3 find next, Shift-F3 find previous, Ctrl-F8 jump next error, Ctrl-Shift-F8 jump previous error, F5 add breakpoint, Ctrl-F4 close file, F11 toggle OI, Ctrl-F12 view units, Shift-F12 view forms, F12 toggle unit/form, Ctrl-F11 open project, Shift-F11 add unit to project, Ctrl-Shift-F11 project options, Ctrl-F9 build, F9 run, F7 step into, F8 step over, F4 run to cursor, Ctrl-F2 stop program, Ctrl-F7 evaluate, Ctrl-F5 add watch, F1 help, Ctrl-Shift-F1 help editor
[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
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, solved
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	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	bookmark commands
Cmd-*-1-9	apple functions like capture screen	bookmark commands

XCode

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