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title: GitLab
date: 2022-11-23 16:23:31.693478
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  A visual cheat-sheet for the 58 keyboard shortcuts found in GitLab
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## Keyboard Shortcuts

### Global

| Shortcut           | Action                                                                   |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `?`                | Show or hide the shortcut reference sheet                                |
| `Shift` `P`        | Go to your projects page                                                 |
| `Shift` `G`        | Go to your groups page                                                   |
| `Shift` `A`        | Go to your activity page                                                 |
| `Shift` `L`        | Go to your milestones page                                               |
| `Shift` `S`        | Go to your snippets page                                                 |
| `S`                | Put the cursor in the issues or merge requests search                    |
| `Shift` `I`        | Go to your issues page                                                   |
| `Shift` `T`        | Go to your merge requests page                                           |
| `P` `B`            | Show or hide the performance bar                                         |
| `Up`               | Edit your last comment, you must be in a blank text field below a thread |
| `Ctrl` `Shift` `P` | Toggle markdown preview when editing text in a text field                |

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### Project

| Shortcut | Action                                                |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| `G` `P`  | Go to the project home page                           |
| `G` `V`  | Go to the project activity feed                       |
| `G` `R`  | Go to the project releases list                       |
| `G` `F`  | Go to the project files list                          |
| `T`      | Go to the project file search page                    |
| `G` `C`  | Go to the project commits list                        |
| `G` `N`  | Go to the repository graph page                       |
| `G` `D`  | Go to the repository charts                           |
| `G` `I`  | Go to the project issues list                         |
| `I`      | Go to the new issue page                              |
| `G` `B`  | Go to the project issues boards list                  |
| `G` `M`  | Go to the project merge requests list                 |
| `G` `J`  | Go to the CI/CD jobs list                             |
| `G` `L`  | Go to the project metrics                             |
| `G` `E`  | Go to the project environments                        |
| `G` `K`  | Go to the project Kubernetes cluster integration page |
| `G` `S`  | Go to the project snippets list                       |
| `G` `W`  | Go to the project wiki, if enabled                    |

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### Issues and Merge Requests

| Shortcut | Action                                                             |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `E`      | Edit description                                                   |
| `A`      | Change assignee                                                    |
| `M`      | Change milestone                                                   |
| `L`      | Change label                                                       |
| `R`      | Start writing a comment, if any text is selected it will be quoted |
| `N`      | Move to next unresolved discussion, merge requests only            |
| `P`      | Move to previous unresolved discussion, merge requests only        |
| `]`      | Move to next file, merge requests only                             |
| `[`      | Move to previous file, merge requests only                         |

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### Project Files

| Shortcut | Action                                                      |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Up`     | Move selection up                                           |
| `Down`   | Move selection down                                         |
| `Enter`  | Open selection                                              |
| `Esc`    | Go back to file list screen, only while searching for files |
| `Y`      | Go to file permalink, only while viewing a file             |

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### Web IDE

| Shortcut       | Action                                              |
| -------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `Ctrl` `P`     | Search for, and then open, another file for editing |
| `Ctrl` `Enter` | Commit, when editing the commit message             |

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### Repository Graph

| Shortcut       | Action           |
| -------------- | ---------------- |
| `Left`         | Scroll left      |
| `Right`        | Scroll right     |
| `Up`           | Scroll up        |
| `Down`         | Scroll down      |
| `Shift` `Up`   | Scroll to top    |
| `Shift` `Down` | Scroll to bottom |

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### Wiki Pages

| Shortcut | Action         |
| -------- | -------------- |
| `E`      | Edit wiki page |

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### Filtered Search

| Shortcut           | Action                     |
| ------------------ | -------------------------- |
| `Ctrl` `Backspace` | Clear entire search filter |
| `Alt` `Backspace`  | Clear one token at a time  |

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### Epics

| Shortcut | Action                                                             |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `R`      | Start writing a comment, if any text is selected it will be quoted |
| `E`      | Edit description                                                   |
| `L`      | Change a label                                                     |

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## Also see

- [Keyboard shortcuts for GitLab](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/shortcuts.html) _(docs.gitlab.com)_