eXo Platform 3.5

## Chapter 14. 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. Customize Toolbar

## Customize Hotkeys

The hotkey manager enables you to customize hotkeys applied for eXo IDE. If your customized hotkeys are matching with browser hotkeys, only eXo IDE hotkeys work out.

If hotkeys of the browser and of eXo IDE are not overidden, they will work as usual.

To customize your own hotkeys, do as follows:

- Step 1: Go to Window > Customize Hotkeys... on the top menu to open the Customize hotkeys dialog.

Illustration. Customize hotkeys

The Customize hotkeys dialog consists of the list grid with all commands divided to groups and their hotkeys.

- Step 2: Click your desired action in the Customize hotkeys dialog.

- Step 3: Enter the hotkeys combination in the Hotkey field. The first key should be "Ctrl" or "Alt".

If the hotkeys combination is not already assigned to another command, the Bind button will be active. Otherwise, the error message is shown under the Hotkey field. For example:

Illustration. Error message

- Step 4: Click the Bind button.

- Step 5: Click Save to accept your new settings on the server.

To unbind hotkeys for one command, do as follows:

- Step 1: Open the Customize hotkeys window.

- Step 2: Select your needed command in the list grid.

- Step 3: Click Unbind.

- Step 4: Click Save to accept your new settings on the server.

### Note

- You can not make any changes for hotkeys of the "Editor hotkeys" group, because they are reserved and used in editors. These hotkeys also can not be reapplied for other commands. To see these hotkeys, scroll down the end of the "Customize hotkeys" window and click the plus icon next to "Editor hotkeys".

- If you still want to bind the hotkeys which are the same as the predefined hotkeys, except those of the "Editor hotkeys" group, first select and unbind the predefined hotkeys.

The following is the list of predefined hotkeys:

- Default global hotkeys

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

- Non-changeable hotkeys within editors

Hotkeys | Functions
--- | ---
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