Jupyter Notebook - Editing

While the menu bar and toolbar lets you perform various operations on notebook, it is desirable to be able to use keyboard shortcuts to perform them quickly.

Jupyter Notebooks have two different keyboard input modes −

  • Command Mode − Binds the keyboard to notebook level actions. Indicated by a grey cell border with a blue left margin.

  • Edit Mode − When you are typing in a cell. Indicated by a green cell border.

Command Mode (press Esc to enable)

F

 find and replace

1

 change cell to heading 1

Ctrl-Shift-F

 open the command palette

2

 change cell to heading 2

Ctrl-Shift-P

 open the command palette

3

 change cell to heading 3

Enter

 enter edit mode

4

 change cell to heading 4

P

 open the command palette

5

 change cell to heading 5

Shift-Enter

 run cell, select below

6

 change cell to heading 6

Ctrl-Enter

 run selected cells

A

 insert cell above

Alt-Enter

 run cell and insert below

B

 insert cell below

Y

 change cell to code

X

 cut selected cells

M

 change cell to markdown

C

 copy selected cells

R

 change cell to raw

V

 paste cells below

K

 select cell above

Z

 undo cell deletion

Up

 select cell above

D,D

 delete selected cells

Down

 select cell below

Shift-M

merge selected cells, or current cell with cell below if only one cell is selected

J

 select cell below

Shift-V

 paste cells above

Shift-K

 extend selected cells above

L

 toggle line numbers

Shift-Up

 extend selected cells above

O

 toggle output of selected cells

Shift-Down

 extend selected cells below

Shift-O

 toggle output scrolling of selected cells

Shift-J

 extend selected cells below

I,I

 interrupt the kernel

Ctrl-S

 Save and Checkpoint

0,0

 restart the kernel (with dialog)

S

 Save and Checkpoint

Esc

 close the pager

Shift-L

 toggles line numbers in all cells, and persist the setting

Q

 close the pager

Shift-Space

 scroll notebook up

Space

 scroll notebook down

Edit Mode (press Enter to enable)

Tab

 code completion or indent

Ctrl-Home

 go to cell start

Shift-Tab

 tooltip

Ctrl-Up

 go to cell start

Ctrl-]

 indent

Ctrl-End

 go to cell end

Ctrl-[

 dedent

Ctrl-Down

 go to cell end

Ctrl-A

 select all

Ctrl-Left

 go one word left

Ctrl-Z

 undo

Ctrl-Right

 go one word right

Ctrl-/

 comment

Ctrl-M

 enter command mode

Ctrl-D

 delete whole line

Ctrl-Shift-F

 open the command palette

Ctrl-U

 undo selection

Ctrl-Shift-P

 open the command palette

Insert

 toggle overwrite flag

Esc

 enter command mode

Ctrl-Backspace

 delete word before

Ctrl-Y

 redo

Ctrl-Delete

 delete word after

Alt-U

 redo selection

Shift-Enter

 run cell, select below

Ctrl-Shift-Minus

 split cell at cursor

Ctrl-Enter

 run selected cells

Down

 move cursor down

Alt-Enter

 run cell and insert below

Up

 move cursor up

Ctrl-S

 Save and Checkpoint

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