Keyboard

Press ? anywhere to see this list inside the application. It is generated from the same table the shortcuts are read from, so it cannot fall behind them.

Going places

Press G, then a letter. The letters are the initials of the English screen names, and they stay the same in every language — a shortcut that moved with the translation would have to be relearned per language.

Keys	Screen
G D	Dashboard
G C	Catalogue
G K	Calendar
G J	History
G N	Notes
G R	Register
G T	Trash
G S	Settings

The chord waits about a second and a half for its second key. If none arrives, or the key goes nowhere, the chord is dropped and nothing happens — a forgotten G never turns a later keystroke into a jump.

Moving around

Keys	What it does
Ctrl+K / ⌘K	Find anything: works, drafts, notes, comments, assistant replies. A note opens on the Notes screen, a comment on the Comments screen
Alt+←	Back
Alt+→	Forward

Back and forward are the browser’s own keys, and they work here for the same reason the address bar would: every screen, every open work and every tab is an address (ADR 0006). Opening a work, switching to its Score tab and pressing Alt+← twice puts you back where you started.

Everywhere

Keys	What it does
Ctrl+Z / ⌘Z	Take back the last thing you changed
?	This list
Esc	Close what is open — a dialog, the search box; a text on the whole screen steps back one level

Undo takes back one thing: the last change to the workspace. Not every change can be taken back — a plan applied to the whole calendar, a status recomputed across the catalogue, and other things that touch many rows at once are left alone rather than half-reversed. When there is nothing to take back, kilna says so instead of doing something else. Deleting is safe regardless of any of this: it goes to the trash, which is a drawer, not a shredder.

You will usually not need the key. Saving an edit puts a line at the corner of the screen naming what changed, with Undo beside it — the same bargain deleting has made since the beginning: nothing asks you to confirm beforehand, and one click takes it back afterwards. The keystroke is for when the line has gone and you have moved on.

While you are typing

A shortcut must never cost you a sentence:

• Letter shortcuts stand aside. G and ? do nothing while the focus is in a text field, a select, or anything made editable. They are letters, and in a field a letter is a letter.
• Shortcuts with a modifier keep working. Ctrl+K opens search from inside a field on purpose — it is the way out of where you are. Alt+← walks back from inside the version editor for the same reason: Alt types nothing, so it interrupts nothing.
• Ctrl+S writes the open text now. The text in a version saves itself a moment after you pause; the key is for the hand that presses it anyway, and it writes immediately instead of a moment later.
• Ctrl+Z belongs to the field you are in. It is the one shortcut with a modifier that stands aside, because inside a text field it already means something — take back the word you just typed. Taking back a saved edit while someone meant to take back a typo would be the worst kind of helpful. Step out of the field and Ctrl+Z is kilna’s again.

The arrows belong to what is under them

Bare arrow keys are never taken by the shell. They belong to whatever has focus, and several things want them:

• the version list walks through revisions with ↑ and ↓, keeping one tab stop for the whole history;
• the search box and every menu move their highlight with the arrows, with Home and End jumping to the ends and type-ahead finding an item by its first letters;
• the score scale takes ← and → to move a mark, with Tab between axes;
• a calendar chip being carried by keyboard is placed with the arrows, and Esc puts it back where it was;
• a frame opened full screen walks scene to scene with ← and →, skipping scenes that have no picture yet, and Esc closes it;
• an open scene row takes Ctrl+V to paste a picture from the clipboard straight onto that scene.

A menu on every row

Wherever a row stands for something — a work in the catalogue, a release on the card, a chat in the assistant — there are two ways to its actions, and both reach the same list:

• the three dots at the end of the row;
• a right click anywhere on the row, or a long press on a touch screen.

The row lights up while its menu is open, so it is clear which of twenty rows the actions belong to.

Either way the menu is keyboard-operable in full: arrows that wrap, Home and End, type-ahead that finds an item by its first letters, and Esc to leave without choosing.

Picking out a run of rows

In the catalogue, Shift and a click on a second checkbox take every row between it and the last one you ticked, in the order the table is showing them. The run follows the first row’s state: shift- clicking out of a ticked row fills the span, out of an unticked one clears it.