Appendix II: Shortcut listing

The goal of this appendix is to reunite all available shortcut keys that trigger the features available in pgModeler. Note that if you are running pgModeler on macOS system any appearance of Control (Ctrl) key in the listing below should be replaced by Command (Cmd) key.

Shortcut	Triggered action
Ctrl + N	Create a new model.
Ctrl + O	Load a model.
Ctrl + W	Close the current focused model.
Ctrl + S	Save the current focused model.
Ctrl + P	Print the current focused model.
Ctrl + Shift + S	Show the main menu bar.
Ctrl + Shift + H	Hide the main menu bar.
Ctrl + Shift + E	Open the model export dialog.
Ctrl + Shift + I	Open the database import dialog.
Ctrl + Shift + D	Open the model database diff dialog.
Ctrl + Q	Quit pgModeler.
Ctrl + Z	Undo an executed operation.
Ctrl + Y	Redo an executed operation.
Ctrl + C	Copy the selected objects.
Ctrl + X	Cut the selected objects.
Ctrl + V	Paste the previously copied objects.
Del	Delete the selected objects.
Ctrl + G	Show canvas area grid.
Ctrl + L	Show canvas area page delimiter lines.
Ctrl + 0	Reset the zoom factor.
Ctrl + +	Zoom in the canvas area.
Ctrl + -	Zoom out the canvas area.
F10	Open the model overview dialog.
F1	Open the support page.
F4	Open the about dialog.
F2	Rename the selected object.
Ctrl + E	Edit the selected object's permissions.
Alt + Q	Open the custom SQL dialog.
Ctrl + A	Select all objects in the canvas area.
Space	Open the properties dialog for the selected object.
Alt + S	Open the source code preview dialog for the selected object.
Left Arrow	Move canvas area to left.
Right Arrow	Move canvas area to right.
Up Arrow	Move up the canvas area.
Down Arrow	Move down the canvas area.
Shift + Click + Drag	Enable range selection on canvas area.
Middle click + Drag	Enable panning mode on canvas area.
Ctrl + Click	Enables the object multi selection.
Shift + Click	Add points to the selected relationship line.
Alt + Shift + Click	Reset the relationship labels to their original postions.
Alt + V	Open the validation dialog.
Alt + L	Toggles the validation widget.
F6	Execute the command typed in the SQL tool.
Alt + O	Open the operation history widget in the SQL tool.
Alt + O	Toggle the output widget in the SQL tool.
Alt + B	Open the model objects widget.
Ins	Add a new item on an object's grid.
Del	Delete the selected item from an object's grid.
Shift + Del	Delete all items from an object's grid.
Space	Triggers the item edition on an object's grid.
Alt + R	Triggers the item update on an object's grid.
Ctrl + Up	Move one row up an item at object's grid.
Ctrl + Down	Move one row down an item at object's grid.
Ctrl + Home	Move to the first row an item at object's grid.
Ctrl + End	Move to the last row an item at object's grid.
N	Toggle the new object overlay. For the single letter shortcuts below the overlay must be visible in order to trigger their respective actions.
G	Open the cast editing form.
L	Open the language editing form.
R	Open the role editing form.
S	Open the schema editing form.
P	Open the tablespace editing form.
9	Open the tag editing form.
M	Open the textbox editing form.
0	Edit the permissions for the current selected object.
A	Open the aggregate editing form.
H	Open the collation editing form.
J	Open the conversion editing form.
D	Open the domain editing form.
E	Open the extension editing form.
F	Open the function editing form.
O	Open the operator class editing form.
U	Open the operator editing form.
I	Open the operator family editing form.
Q	Open the sequence editing form.
T	Open the table editing form.
Y	Open the type editing form.
W	Open the view editing form.
8	Open the generic SQL editing form.
C	Open the column editing form.
Z	Open the constraint editing form.
B	Open the trigger editing form.
X	Open the index editing form.
V	Open the rule editing form.
9	Open the policy editing form.
1	Add an one-to-one relationship.
2	Add an one-to-many relationship.
3	Add a many-to-many relationship.
4	Add an inheritance relationship.
5	Add a copy relationship.
F5	Refresh data listing in data manipulation dialog.
Alt + G	Open the data manipulation dialog in SQL tool.
Alt + F5	Performs a quick refresh on the database explorer.
Ctrl + F5	Performs a full refresh on the database explorer.
Ctrl + S	Save changes in data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + C	Copy seletect rows in data manipulation dialog as CSV buffer.
Ctrl + Shift + C	Copy seletect rows in data manipulation dialog as plain text buffer.
Ctrl + X	Export results to CSV in data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + Z	Undo operations in data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + D	Duplicate the selected rows in data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + E	Triggers the bulk data editing in data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + V	Paste the contents of the clipboard into the data manipulation dialog.
Ins	Add a blank row in data manipulation dialog.
Del	Mark a line to be deleted in data manipulation dialog.
F12	Open pgModeler settings.