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TUI Keybindings

vaste-tui keys cannot be changed. Letters are case-sensitive: g and G do different things. With Alt, use the lowercase letter.

Everywhere

Section titled “Everywhere”

These keys work in every view, unless a search bar, command line, or list is open.

Key Action
q, Ctrl + C Quit
? Show or hide the help screen
Tab Show the next view: Text, Hex, then the table or NDJSON view
t Show Text view
x Show Hex view
r Reload the file
e Open the encoding list
L Turn log-level colors on or off
Ctrl + G Turn grep mode on or off, in Text view after a search
Esc Leave grep mode, or clear the search

Text view and grep mode

Section titled “Text view and grep mode”
Key Action
j, Down Scroll one line down
k, Up Scroll one line up
d, u Scroll half a screen down or up
Page Down, Page Up Scroll one screen down or up. Not in grep mode.
g, Home Go to the start of the file
G, End Go to the end of the file
/ Open the search bar
n, N Go to the next or previous match
: Open the command line
m, then a letter Set a mark
', then a letter Go to a mark

Hex view

Section titled “Hex view”

The keys of Text view, scrolling by rows of bytes, and:

Key Action
w Show 8, 16, or 32 bytes per row

NDJSON view

Section titled “NDJSON view”

The keys of Text view, moving the focus from record to record, and:

Key Action
Enter Expand or collapse the focused record

Table view

Section titled “Table view”
Key Action
j, Down, k, Up Scroll one row down or up
d, u, Page Down, Page Up Scroll half a screen or a screen
g, Home, G, End Go to the first or last row
h, Left Select the previous column
l, Right Select the next column
s Sort by the selected column, ascending
S Sort by the selected column, descending
c Clear the sort
f, Enter Filter the selected column
F Clear the filter
i Show the selected column’s statistics
: Open the command line

The table view has no search and no marks. See Table view.

Section titled “Search bar”

The search bar opens with /. See TUI search and marks.

Key Action
Enter Search. With nothing typed, clear the search.
Esc Close the search bar and clear the search
Alt + l Literal text
Alt + r Regular expression
Alt + h Hex bytes
Alt + m Several literal patterns separated by |
Alt + i Ignore case on or off
Alt + w Whole words on or off

The search bar also uses these text editing keys:

Key Action
Left, Right Move the cursor
Home, End, Ctrl + A, Ctrl + E Go to the start or end of the text
Backspace, Delete Delete a character
Ctrl + W Delete the previous word
Ctrl + K Delete to the end of the text
Ctrl + U Undo
Ctrl + C Nothing. It does not quit here.

Command line

Section titled “Command line”

The command line opens with :. See TUI commands.

Key Action
Enter Run the command
Esc Close the command line
Backspace Delete a character, or close the command line when it is empty

Table filter

Section titled “Table filter”

The filter prompt opens with f or Enter in the table view.

Key Action
Enter Apply the filter. With nothing typed, keep the current filter.
Esc Close the prompt without filtering
Backspace Delete a character

Encoding list

Section titled “Encoding list”

The encoding list opens with e.

Key Action
Letters and digits Narrow the list. j and k move instead: type J and K.
Up, Down Move the selection
Backspace Delete a character from the filter
Enter Reopen the file with the selected encoding
Esc Close the list

Boxes and the help screen

Section titled “Boxes and the help screen”

The help screen, the file statistics, the column statistics, and error messages close with any key.

The help screen lists the main keys. It shows Alt keys with capital letters, such as Alt+L: press them with the lowercase letter. It does not list Home, End, Ctrl + C, or :count TEXT, which are on this page and TUI commands.

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”