Keyboard shortcuts

The editor’s shortcuts are provided by opt-in plugins and registered through a ShortcutRegistry, so an app can remap or disable any of them. The drop-in shell enables the built-in set below by default.

Note

On macOS, Ctrl matches Cmd — the combo parser treats Ctrl as the primary modifier cross-platform. Shortcuts are also suppressed while you type in a text field, so Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V do native text copy/paste there.

Editing

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Z	Undo last command
Ctrl+Y	Redo (Windows idiom)
Ctrl+Shift+Z	Redo (macOS / Linux idiom)
Ctrl+X	Cut selection
Ctrl+C	Copy selection
Ctrl+V	Paste
Ctrl+Shift+V	Paste in place
Ctrl+D	Duplicate selection

Objects

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+G	Group selection
Ctrl+Shift+G	Ungroup focused selection

Selection

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+A	Select all objects on the active page
Arrow keys	Nudge selection
Shift + Arrow keys	Nudge selection (larger step)
Delete	Delete selection

Snapshots

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Shift+S	Take a snapshot of the current document
Ctrl+Alt+Z	Restore the most recent snapshot

File

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+S	Save workspace (.svge)

Tool activation

Press a key to switch tools. The tools palette also shows each key as a tooltip.

Key	Tool
V	Select
A	Direct Select
B	Pen
P	Pencil
R	Rectangle
E	Ellipse
Y	Polygon
T	Text
I	Eyedropper
C	Knife
S	Smooth
G	Gradient
W	Width
O	Symbol Sprayer
Shift+O	Page (Artboard)

See Tools for what each tool does. Some features register their own shortcuts (for example, Find & Replace).