🩳 Short-keys

Mercury has various shortkeys that help you navigate the editor more quickly during live performances, both in the Mercury4Max as in the MercuryPlayground versions.

Known issue

alt + / for non UK/US keyboards can be an issue, because the / is not a unique key but above the 7 so you need to use shift. This is fixed in the browser editor, but still has issues in Flok.

External Editor

When you use an external editor like Pulsar the Overall Shortkeys apply, but all other shortkeys for navigating and editting are based on the preferences of that editor.

If you encounter any other issues please file a report via the steps in Troubleshooting.

• Overall Shortkeys
• Shortkeys in Mercury4Max
• Shortkeys in MercuryPlayground

Overall Shortkeys

Combination	Function
Alt/Ctrl Enter	Evaluate code
Alt/Ctrl .	Silence the sound
Alt/Ctrl /	(Un)Comment a line or multiple lines of code

Shortkeys in Mercury4Max

Windows

At the moment shortkeys are defaulted for Mac platforms, for Windows you can adjust them via the Settings.

Editor Navigation

Keymap	Function
Arrow Left	Move left one character
Arrow Down	Go down one line
Arrow Right	Move right by one character
Arrow Up	Go up one line
Alt A	Move left one character
Alt S	Go down one line
Alt D	Move right one character
Alt W	Go up one line
Alt Arrow Up	Jump to the top of editor (end of the line)
Alt Arrow Down	Jump to the end of editor (end of the line)
Alt Arrow Left	Jump to the beginning of the line
Alt Arrow Right	Jump to the end of the line
Alt ,	Disable/enable the editor

Editor Editing

Copy/Paste/Paste-Replace/Delete only works inside the editor. In order to input or output code to a different application you have to save the file as a .txt or open a .txt file from disk.

Keymap	Function
Alt + X	Delete the line where the cursor is located
Alt + C	Copy the line where the cursor is located
Alt + V	Paste insert a line of code where the cursor is located
Alt + P	Paste replace a line where the cursor is located

Customize Shortkeys

You can customize the shortkeys by opening the Setup Shortkeys under Settings in the menubar. You can also reset to the default key commands.

1. Select the key you would like to customize in the dropdown menu on the top.
2. Click change keycommand, it now displays waiting for keys....
3. Hit the key combination you would like to use for this command and release the keys to store.
4. Check if stored correctly in the scroll-menu below. Every command displays the shortcut and keycode.

Shortkeys in MercuryPlayground

Menu Navigation

Keymap	Function
(Shift) Tab	Move left/right through menu items
Alt (Shift) Tab	Move out of editor to menu
Enter	Select menu item
Arrow Up / Arrow Down	Go up/down through tutorials/sounds menu

Menu Items Quick Access

The following shortkeys only work when focused on the code editor. You can find these shortkeys also by keeping the mouse over the button for a short period until the tooltip appears.

Keymap	Function
Ctrl/Alt Shift E	Empty editor
Ctrl/Alt Shift X	Load random example
Ctrl/Alt Shift S	Download code as text
Ctrl/Alt Shift R	Start/stop recording sound
Ctrl/Alt Shift D	Toggle dark/light display mode
Ctrl/Alt Shift P	Open help
Ctrl/Alt Shift C	Open flok.cc to collaborate
Ctrl/Alt Shift A	Add sounds
Ctrl/Alt Shift Z	Toggle zen mode (hiding the menu)
Ctrl/Alt Shift H	Show/hide editor

Editor Navigation

Keymap	Function
Arrow Left	Move left one character
Arrow Down	Go down one line
Arrow Right	Move right by one character
Arrow Up	Go up one line
Ctrl P	Move up one line
Ctrl N	Move down one line
Ctrl F	Move forward one character to the right
Ctrl B	Move back one character to the left
Ctrl A	Jump to the beginning of the line
Ctrl V	Jump to last character in the code
Cmd Arrow Down	Jump to end of the code
Cmd Arrow Up	Jump to beginning of the code

Editor Editing

Keymap	Function
Cmd C	Copy the selected code or if nothing selected copy the entire line
Cmd V	Paste whatever is currently in the clipboard
Cmd Z	Undo editing of the code
Cmd Shift Z	Redo editing of the code
Alt Right	Jump a word to the right
Alt Left	Jump a word to the left
Ctrl O	Enter a new line
Cmd D	Delete the entire line
Ctrl D	Delete character on the right
Ctrl H	Backspace character on the left
Ctrl K	Delete everything on right side of the cursor