Introduction

Numerous actions or commands can be performed with the mouse as well as the keyboard. The shortcuts that you can use in the ST/IL Editors are described in the table below. Furthermore, most of the general keyboard shortcuts are available in the General Keyboard shortcuts map.

Keyboard Shortcuts

This table describes the ST/IL Editors keyboard shortcuts.

Action

Menu

Keyboard Shortcut

Select data from a list

Edit

Ctrl+D

Select the Function Input Assistant

Edit

Ctrl+I

Create an IF Statement

Edit/New

F4

Create a FOR Statement

Edit/New

F5

Create a WHILE Statement

Edit/New

F6

Create a REPEAT Statement

Edit/New

Shift+F6

Create a CASE Statement

Edit/New

Shift+F4

Create a variable

Edit/New

Shift+Enter

Edit the selected text in Upper case

Edit

Shift+Alt+U

Edit the selected text in lowercase

Edit

ALt+U

Find the selected text

Edit

Ctrl+F

Find the next selected occurrence

Edit

F3

Find the previous selected occurrence

Edit

Shift+F3

Replace the selected occurrence

Edit

Ctrl+H

Go to part of the selected project

Edit

Ctrl+G

Add a bookmark

Edit/Bookmark

Ctrl+F2

Go to next bookmark

Edit/Bookmark

F2

Go to previous bookmark

Edit/Bookmark

Shift+F2

Delete all bookmarks

Edit/Bookmark

Ctrl+Shift+F2

Display the general attributes of the selected item

Edit

Ctrl+Enter

Modify the properties of the selected item

Edit

Alt+Enter

Add a comment

Edit/New

F8

Open the Inspect window

Edit/New

F9

Zoom in

View/Zoom

• Ctrl+Plus (+)

• Ctrl+Rotate the mouse wheel

Zoom out

View/Zoom

• Ctrl+Minus (-)

• Ctrl+Rotate the mouse wheel

Show/Hide the Inspect window

View

Shift+F8

Go to the previous section

View

Ctrl+Alt+Pg Up

Go to the next section

View

Ctrl+Alt+Pg Dn

Refine an object

Services

Ctrl+Q

Set breakpoint

Debug

Ctrl+F11

Clear breakpoint

Debug

Ctrl+Shift+F11

Go to the selected breakpoint

Debug

Ctrl+F5

Step over the next action

Debug

F11

Step into the action

Debug

F12

Step out the action

Debug

Shift+F12

Set watchpoint

Debug

Alt+F11

Clear watchpoint

Debug

Alt+Shift+F11
NOTE: The IF, FOR, WHILE, REPEAT, CASE statement shortcuts are only available with the ST Editor.