eXo Platform 3.5

## Chapter 3. Miscellaneous and Tips

This chapter will show you all tips that may help you customize the eXo IDE to your preferences. The following topics will be covered:

- Customize the toolbar

  How to customize the toolbar, such as adding or removing some buttons, changing their positions or delimiters.

- Customize hotkeys

  How to customize hotkeys to apply for eXo IDE.

### Note

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

## 3.1. Customize the toolbar

If you want to customize the toolbar, such as adding or removing some buttons, changing their positions or delimiters, go to Window → Customize Toolbar... from the top menu. This form will show typical interfaces and commands set for such operations:

## 3.2. 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 overridden, they will work as usual.

Customize your own hotkeys

1. Go to Window → Customize Hotkeys... from the top menu to open the Customize hotkeys form.

The Customize hotkeys form lists all commands with their respective binding hotkeys.

2. Click your desired action in the Customize hotkeys form.

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:

4. Click Bind.

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

Unbind hotkeys for a command

1. Open the Customize hotkeys window.

2. Select your needed command in the list grid.

3. Click Unbind.

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

### Note

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

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

The following is the list of predefined hotkeys:

- Default global hotkeys

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

- Non-changeable hotkeys within editors

Hotkeys | Functions
--- | ---
Ctrl+Space | Auto-complete
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 beginning of document
Ctrl+End | Go to the end of document

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