eXo Platform 3.0

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## Chapter 10. Miscellaneous and Tips

## View information about eXo IDE

To view information about the current version of eXo IDE, go to Help > About on the top menu.

## Customize Toolbar

If you want to customize the Toolbar, such as adding or removing some buttons, changing their positions or delimiters, select Window > Customize Toolbar... on the top menu. This dialog will show typical interfaces and commands set for such operations:

Illustration 28. Customize Toolbar

## Customize Hotkeys

The hotkey manager enable users to customize hotkeys. If you use your hotkeys that match to browser hotkeys, only eXo IDE hotkeys work out.

If you do not override browser hotkeys, they will work as usual.

You can customize hotkeys in the Customize hotkeys dialog window selecting Window > Customize Hotkeys... on the top menu.

Illustration 29. Customize hotkeys

The Customize hotkeys dialog window consists of list grid with all commands divided to groups and their hotkeys, binding to them. If you want to assign your own hotkeys, do as follows:

- Step 1: Select the specific action in the Customize hotkeys dialog window. After selecting, the focus will be set on the Hotkey field.

- Step 2: Press the hotkeys combination. It should be the combination of "Ctrl" or "Alt" key with other allowed keys.

- Step 3: If the hotkeys combination is valid, the Bind button will be active. Otherwise, the error message will be shown under the Hotkey field.

- Step 4: Click the Bind button.

- Step 5: Click Save to save your settings on the server, or Cancel to discard without any changes.

If you entered the invalid hotkeys combination, an error message will be shown as below:

Illustration 30. Error message

If you want to unbind hotkeys for some commands, do as follows:

- Step 1: Open the Customize hotkeys dialog window.

- Step 2: Find the needed command in the list grid.

- Step 3: Click Unbind.

- Step 4: Click Save to save your settings on the server, or Cancel to discard without any changes.

At the end of hotkeys list, you can see the "Editor hotkeys" group. You can not change these hotkeys, because they are reserved and used in editors. Also, you can not use these hotkeys for other commands. The following is the list of predefined hotkeys:

### Default global hotkeys

Table 10.1.

Hotkey | Function
--- | ---
Ctrl+F | Find/Replace
Ctrl+D | Delete line
Ctrl+L | Go to line
Ctrl+N | Create file from template
Ctrl+S | Save file

### Non-changable hotkeys working within editors

Table 10.2.

Hotkey | Function |
Ctrl+Space | Autocomplete |
Ctrl+B | Make text bold |
Ctrl+I | Make text italic |
Ctrl+U | Make text underlined |
Ctrl+C | Copy selected text |
Ctrl+V | Paste copied text |
Ctrl+X | Cut selected text |
Ctrl+Z | Undo typing |
Ctrl+Y | Redo typing |
Ctrl+A | Select all |
Ctrl+Home | Go to the start of document |
Ctrl+End | Go to the end of document |

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