A number of common actions within the graphical interface can be triggered through keyboard shortcuts. As of Recoll 1.29, many of the shortcut values can be customised from a screen in the GUI preferences. Most shortcuts are specific to a given context (e.g. within a preview window, within the result table).
Most shortcuts can be changed to a preferred value by using the GUI shortcut editor: → → . In order to change a shortcut, just click the corresponding cell in the Shortcut column, and type the desired sequence.
Table 1. Keyboard shortcuts
| Description | Default value |
|---|---|
| Context: almost everywhere | |
| Program exit | Ctrl+Q |
| Context: advanced search | |
| Load the next entry from the search history | Up |
| Load the previous entry from the search history | Down |
| Context: main window | |
| Clear search. This will move the keyboard cursor to the simple search entry and erase the current text | Ctrl+S |
| Move the keyboard cursor to the search entry area without erasing the current text | Ctrl+L |
| Move the keyboard cursor to the search entry area without erasing the current text | Ctrl+Shift+S |
| Toggle displaying the current results as a table or as a list | Ctrl+T |
| Context: main window, when showing the results as a table | |
| Move the keyboard cursor to currently the selected row in the table, or to the first one if none is selected | Ctrl+R |
| Jump to row 0-9 or a-z in the table | Ctrl+[0-9] or Ctrl+Shift+[a-z] |
| Cancel the current selection | Esc |
| Context: preview window | |
| Close the preview window | Esc |
| Close the current tab | Ctrl+W |
| Open a print dialog for the current tab contents | Ctrl+P |
| Load the next result from the list to the current tab | Shift+Down |
| Load the previous result from the list to the current tab | Shift+Up |
| Context: result table | |
| Copy the text contained in the selected document to the clipboard | Ctrl+G |
| Copy the text contained in the selected document to the clipboard, then exit recoll | Ctrl+Alt+Shift+G |
| Open the current document | Ctrl+O |
| Open the current document and exit Recoll | Ctrl+Alst+Shift+O |
| Show a full preview for the current document | Ctrl+D |
| Toggle showing the column names | Ctrl+H |
| Show a snippets (keyword in context) list for the current document | Ctrl+E |
| Toggle showing the row letters/numbers | Ctrl+V |
| Context: snippets window | |
| Close the snippets window | Esc |
| Find in the snippets list (method #1) | Ctrl+F |
| Find in the snippets list (method #2) | / |
| Find the next instance of the search term | F3 |
| Find the previous instance of the search term | Shift+F3 |
