keyboard-shortcuts.qmd

# Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts tend to make our lives easier. Some that you might already be familiar with in day to day life include quickly saving (Cmd + S or Ctrl + S), or Undo (Cmd + Z or Ctrl + Z).

There are many keyboard shortcuts that you can access in R, this section provides a brief tour of them, and why you might want to use them.

## Overview

* **Teaching** 5 minutes
* **Exercises** 5 minutes

## Questions

* What sort of keyboard shortcuts should I care about?

## Objectives

## Gifs of the action

### render document
### Insert Chunk
### Run Current Chunk
### Jump to
### Create multiple cursors
### Delete the current line
### Un/Comment out a line 
### Reformat Section 
### Show Keyboard Shortcut Reference

## Table of Common Shortcuts

Below is a small table of tasks you can perform with keyboard 

| Action      | Windows/Linux | Mac  | 
|-------------|---------------|----------------|
| Knit document | Ctrl + Shift + K | Cmd + Shift + K |
| Insert Chunk  | Ctrl + Alt + I   | Cmd + Option + I |
| Run Current Chunk | Ctrl + Alt + C | Cmd + Option + C | 
| Jump to  	Shift+Alt+J 	| Cmd+Shift+Option+J |
| Show Keyboard Shortcut Reference  |	Alt+Shift+K | Option+Shift+K |
| Create multiple cursors | Ctrl + Alt + Up/Down | option + control + Up/Down|
| Delete the current line | Ctrl + D | Cmd + D|
| Un/Comment out a line   | Ctrl + Shift + C | Cmd + Shift + C| 
| Reformat Section | Ctrl + Shift + A | Cmd + Shift + A| 

## Further Reading

- The [Rstudio Cheat Sheet](https://rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets/html/rstudio-ide.html#keyboard-shortcuts) has an index of shortcuts. 
- This [help file](https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/206382178-Customizing-Keyboard-Shortcuts-in-the-RStudio-IDE) has a guide to customising keyboard shortcuts.

## Your Turn {.exercise}

- Using the Keyboard Shortcut Reference, find the keyboard shortcut for inserting a pipe character ( %>% or |>)
- Spend 3 minutes practicing these commands in a document.