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Keyboard shortcuts

Application chords that leave the shell its keys: Ctrl+Shift+T on Linux and Windows, Cmd+T on macOS. Every one can be changed in Settings → Keyboard, and Help → Keyboard Shortcuts lists them, searchable.

• Ctrl+Shift, never Ctrl, off macOS. Ctrl+T is readline’s transpose, Ctrl+W deletes a word and Ctrl+C is SIGINT, so Termina’s chords add Shift: Ctrl+Shift+T for New Tab, Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V to copy and paste. On macOS they are Cmd chords, which a shell never sees.
• Every one can be changed. Settings → Keyboard lists each command under its menu: click its shortcut and press the new one. A shortcut another command has moves on a second press, Backspace removes one, and Reset or Reset All Shortcuts puts them back. Commands with no shortcut of their own, such as Rename Tab, can be given one.
• A bare key is refused. A function key works alone; any other key needs Ctrl, Alt or Cmd, or the shell would lose it. Ctrl with a letter is allowed off macOS, with a note that the shell no longer receives it.
• A searchable reference. Help → Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+/, Cmd+/ on macOS) lists every chord the window answers to, grouped by menu, with a search box.
• Generated, not typed. The reference is built from the window’s own binding table, with the chords in force, so it cannot list a chord that does nothing. The menus, the palette and the tab strip’s tooltips follow a change at once too. The reference also lists the keys the terminal handles itself: Shift+PageUp and friends, Shift+Insert, Ctrl+Insert, middle-click, the link modifier, Shift+drag, and double-clicking a tab to rename it.
• One chord per command. The defaults are declared once, with their menu items, and tested for duplicates on every platform, and the Keyboard page moves a chord rather than sharing it, so a menu can never advertise a key that a different command takes.
• They work without the menu bar. The chords are handled by the window ahead of the terminal, so hiding the menu bar strands nothing.
• On every computer. The shortcuts you change can sync between computers through a Git repository of yours: see Settings sync.

The keybindings page has the defaults. See Keyboard.