FireCMD has a set of keyboard shortcuts to make things quicker and easier. It may be possible that the same shortcut may work differently in different contexts. For example, most of us would be knowing that Ctrl+C is generally used for copying, but while executing any program in the console emulator environment Ctrl+C may terminate the running process instead of copying or may just print "^C". Note: In FireCMD shell, Ctrl+Alt+End can be used to terminate the running command.
| Keypresses | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+N | Opens FireCMD shell in new tab. |
| Ctrl+O | Displays "Open in FireTXT" dialog box. |
| Ctrl+S | Saves the tab's text in a file.(Opens "Save As" dialog box for a non-named file.) |
| Ctrl+A | Selects all text. |
| Ctrl+B | Displays "Open Program" dialog box. |
| Ctrl+F | Opens "Find" dialog box. |
| Alt+Shift+M | Shows/hides menubar. |
| Alt+Shift+T | Shows/hides toolbar. |
| Alt+Shift+S | Shows/hides scrollbar. |
| Ctrl+Alt+F | Enables/disables Fullscreen mode. |
| Ctrl+Plus | Zoom in. "Plus" refers to the symbol +. |
| Ctrl+Mouse Wheel Up | Zoom in. Similar to Ctrl+Plus. |
| Ctrl+Minus | Zoom out. "Minus" refers to the symbol -. |
| Ctrl+Mouse Wheel Down | Zoom out. Similar to Ctrl+Minus. |
| Ctrl+Alt+M | Opens "Manage Shells/Programs" dialog box. |
| Ctrl+Alt+E | Opens "Settings" dialog box. |
| Ctrl+Alt+T | Takes tab's snapshot. |
| Ctrl+Alt+S | Takes tab's snapshot without title. |
| Ctrl+Alt+H | Takes window snapshot. |
| Ctrl+Alt+D | Takes desktop snapshot. |
| Keypresses | Action |
|---|---|
| Backspace | Deletes the character to the left of the cursor. |
| Delete | Deletes the character to the right of the cursor. |
| Ctrl+C | Copy the selected text to the clipboard. |
| Ctrl+Insert | Copy the selected text to the clipboard. |
| Ctrl+V | Pastes the clipboard text. |
| Shift+Insert | Pastes the clipboard text. |
| Ctrl+X | Cuts text (Deletes the selected text and copies it to the clipboard.) |
| Shift+Delete | Cuts text (Deletes the selected text and copies it to the clipboard.) |
| Ctrl+Z | Undoes the last operation. |
| Ctrl+Y | Redoes the last operation. |
| Left | Moves the cursor one character to the left. |
| Ctrl+Left | Moves the cursor one word to the left. |
| Right | Moves the cursor one character to the right. |
| Ctrl+Right | Moves the cursor one word to the right. |
| Up | Moves the cursor one line up. |
| Down | Moves the cursor one line down. |
| PageUp | Moves the cursor one page up. |
| PageDown | Moves the cursor one page down. |
| Home | Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. |
| Ctrl+Home | Moves the cursor to the beginning of the text. |
| End | Moves the cursor to the end of the line. |
| Ctrl+End | Moves the cursor to the end of the text. |
| Alt+Mouse Wheel | Scrolls the page horizontally (Useful when word wrap is disabled). |
| Ctrl+H | Shows Replace dialog box. |
The Right, Left, Up and Down are the arrow keys. To select (mark) text hold down the Shift key and press one of the movement keystrokes, for example, Shift+Right will select the character to the right, and Shift+Ctrl+Right will select the word to the right, etc.
In the FireCMD's execution mode and while running any other console programs the keys which users presses are actually handled by the running process. Though all the general shortcuts except Ctrl+A works perfectly, some shortcuts may act differently. For example, Ctrl+Z (generally used for undo) becomes End of File (EOF) or the suspend character in UNIX shells and UNIX commands while in Command Prompt (cmd.exe) it just prints ^Z.
| Keypresses | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Alt+End | Terminates the running process. (Only works in FireCMD shell) |
In the FireCMD's command mode, you can use all the FireTXT's shortcut except the Up and Down arrow keys. The Up and Down arrow keys are used for command history. If the cursor is not in the editable zone most of the shortcuts may not work. Editable zone is the area after the last prompt where user types the command. The last prompt and the area before prompt is read-only and obviously the text in the read-only area cannot be manipulated.
Tip: If the text cursor is not in the editable zone then you can quickly bring the cursor in the editable zone by pressing Ctrl+End.
| Keypresses | Action |
|---|---|
| Alt | Makes hyperlinks clickable and shows a pointing hand cursor when the hyperlinks are hovered. |
| Up | Previous command history item. |
| Down | Next command history item. |
| Ctrl+E | Triggers auto-completion. |