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Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts

Every key GoSurvey listens for.

Global

Key Action Notes
Enter Submit the command input Works from anywhere — no need to click the command line first
Esc Cancel Walks back one layer at a time — see below
Ctrl+S Save Prompts for a path if the drawing has none
Ctrl+Z Undo Not while typing in a text field
Ctrl+Shift+Z Redo
Ctrl+Y Redo Alternative binding
Ctrl+C Copy selection to the clipboard Not while typing
Ctrl+V Paste from the clipboard at the cursor Not while typing
Delete Start DELETE Erases the selection immediately if there is one; otherwise asks for a window. Not while typing

Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and Delete are suppressed while a text field has focus, so they behave as ordinary text editing there.

Mode toggles

Key Action Notes
F3 Toggle object snap Works even while typing in the command line
F8 Toggle Ortho Works even while typing in the command line

These two are mode keys, not characters, so handling them during text input never interferes with typing a command.

The status bar carries the same toggles, plus GRID, POLAR (not yet functional), VPLOCK, and SEL.

Command line

Key Action
Enter Submit; with the autocomplete popup open, run the highlighted command
Tab Complete to the highlighted suggestion
↑ / ↓ Move the autocomplete highlight
Esc Dismiss the autocomplete popup
F2 Toggle the full-height console (floating bar only)
Ctrl+9 Hide and restore the command bar (floating bar only)

Dynamic input

Key Action
Type Lock the active field to the typed value
Tab Move between the X and Y fields
Enter Commit the point

MTEXT editor

Active only while the in-drawing rich-text editor is open.

Key Action
Enter New line
Ctrl+Enter Reformat
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y Undo / redo inside the text box
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X Copy / cut inside the text box
Ctrl+R Find and Replace
Ctrl+F Insert Field — not supported yet
F1 Help
Esc Cancel the edit

Mouse

Input Action
Left click Pick a point, or select an object
Left drag (from empty space) Selection window
Middle drag Pan
Wheel Zoom, cursor-centred
Right click Repeat the last command, or open the shortcut menu — configurable
Shift + right click One-shot object-snap override menu
Double-click a viewport (paper space) Enter floating model space
Double-click MTEXT Open the rich-text editor
Right-click the OSNAP button Snap-type checklist
Right-click a layout tab Rename · Move or Copy… · Page Setup Manager… · Viewports… · Delete
Right-click the command log Copy log to clipboard

What Esc does, in order

Esc cancels the innermost thing that is running:

  1. An open modal, such as the copy-duplicate dialog
  2. The MTEXT editor
  3. A grip drag — the original position is restored
  4. A 2P bearing pick — cancels the pick only, not the whole LINE or POLYLINE
  5. The running command
  6. Otherwise — clears the selection, closes the Create Points panel, cancels a pending zoom

Command aliases

Typing a short alias is faster than any shortcut. The full list is in Command Reference; the ones worth memorising:

Alias Command
L LINE
PL POLYLINE
C CIRCLE
M MOVE
CP COPY
RO ROTATE
SC SCALE
O OFFSET
TR TRIM
J JOIN
DEL DELETE
ZE ZOOMEXTENTS
ZW ZOOMWINDOW
RE REGEN
LA LAYER
UN UNITS
INV INVERSE
SE SURFELEV
AL ALIGN
QS QUICKSELECT
OK OVERKILL
CRTPTS CREATEPOINTS
VWPTS VIEWPOINTS
IMPPTS IMPORTPOINTS
EXPPTS EXPORTPOINTS

Not available

GoSurvey has no user-customisable keyboard shortcuts, no .pgp-style alias file, and no command macros. Aliases are fixed in the program.

Related

Command Line · Command Reference · Object Selection · Object Snaps