I am heavily keyboard oriented. I like to be able to do most tasks without every touching mouse or trackpad. Purple Tree 2 is designed around that. Thus there are myriad keyboard shortcuts for navigating. Some of those only apply to somebody authenticated to edit (i.e. me).
The Acms convention for key combos is that the key name is in lowercase,
and then the prefixes A-, C-, M-, S-, in that order, signify
Alt, Control, Meta (i.e. Windows), Shift, respectively. So e.g.
capital C would be S-c. You can press C-h to get a list of most
shortcuts.
Some Key Combos
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| / | search for links (regular expression). If multiple links, enter will focus the first link. If only one match, enter will navigate to that match. Note that entering a . in the search box will give you a list of links in the page, since . matches any character. |
| C-g | Goto Box. You can type a page name in here, e.g /purple-tree or Wibble, and it will go there. When the Goto Box focused, C-d will toggle 'open in new tab' and C-e will toggle 'open in edit mode' (edit mode only accessible to authenticated users). |
| C-h | Help. Shows you a (not quite perfect) list of keyboard shortcuts. |
| C-S-d | Duplicate make a new tab with the same url as the current. |
| A-C-S-t | Open in typing mode. This may make you think WTF? But I practise typing regularly, and this means I can put source for typing practice on a PT wiki, and then use this shortcut. (Yes, I put it there because I do use this.) |