Keyboard shortcuts

About keyboard shortcuts

Typing ? on GitHub brings up a dialog box that lists the keyboard shortcuts available for that page. You can use these keyboard shortcuts to perform actions across the site without using your mouse to navigate.

Below is a list of some of the available keyboard shortcuts.

Site wide shortcuts

Keyboard shortcut	Description
S or /	Focus the search bar. For more information, see "About searching on GitHub."
G N	Go to your notifications. For more information, see "About notifications."
Esc	When focused on a user, issue, or pull request hovercard, closes the hovercard and refocuses on the element the hovercard is in

Repositories

Keyboard shortcut	Description
G C	Go to the Code tab
G I	Go to the Issues tab. For more information, see "About issues."
G P	Go to the Pull requests tab. For more information, see "About pull requests."
G A	Go to the Actions tab. For more information, see "About Actions."
G B	Go to the Projects tab. For more information, see "About project boards."
G W	Go to the Wiki tab. For more information, see "About wikis."

Source code editing

Keyboard shortcut	Description
Command+B (Mac) or Ctrl+B (Windows/Linux)	Inserts Markdown formatting for bolding text
Command+I (Mac) or Ctrl+I (Windows/Linux)	Inserts Markdown formatting for italicizing text
Command+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows/Linux)	Inserts Markdown formatting for creating a link
E	Open source code file in the Edit file tab
Command+F (Mac) or Ctrl+F (Windows/Linux)	Start searching in file editor
Command+G (Mac) or Ctrl+G (Windows/Linux)	Find next
Command+Shift+G (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+G (Windows/Linux)	Find previous
Command+Option+F (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+F (Windows/Linux)	Replace
Command+Shift+Option+F (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+R (Windows/Linux)	Replace all
Alt+G	Jump to line
Command+Z (Mac) or Ctrl+Z (Windows/Linux)	Undo
Command+Y (Mac) or Ctrl+Y (Windows/Linux)	Redo
Command+Shift+P	Toggles between the Edit file and Preview changes tabs
Command+S (Mac) or Ctrl+S (Windows/Linux)	Write a commit message

For more keyboard shortcuts, see the CodeMirror documentation.

Source code browsing

Keyboard shortcut	Description
T	Activates the file finder
L	Jump to a line in your code
W	Switch to a new branch or tag
Y	Expand a URL to its canonical form. For more information, see "Getting permanent links to files."
I	Show or hide comments on diffs. For more information, see "Commenting on the diff of a pull request."
A	Show or hide annotations on diffs
B	Open blame view. For more information, see "Tracing changes in a file."

Comments

Keyboard shortcut	Description
Command+B (Mac) or Ctrl+B (Windows/Linux)	Inserts Markdown formatting for bolding text
Command+I (Mac) or Ctrl+I (Windows/Linux)	Inserts Markdown formatting for italicizing text
Command+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows/Linux)	Inserts Markdown formatting for creating a link
Command+Shift+P (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows/Linux)	Toggles between the Write and Preview comment tabs
Command+Enter (Mac) or Ctrl+Enter (Windows/Linux)	Submits a comment
Ctrl+. and then Ctrl+[saved reply number]	Opens saved replies menu and then autofills comment field with a saved reply. For more information, see "About saved replies."
R	Quote the selected text in your reply. For more information, see "Basic writing and formatting syntax."

Issue and pull request lists

Keyboard shortcut	Description
C	Create an issue
Command+/ (Mac) or Ctrl+/ (Windows/Linux)	Focus your cursor on the issues or pull requests search bar. For more information, see "Filtering and searching issues and pull requests."
U	Filter by author
L	Filter by or edit labels. For more information, see "Filtering issues and pull requests by labels."
Alt and click	While filtering by labels, exclude labels. For more information, see "Filtering issues and pull requests by labels."
M	Filter by or edit milestones. For more information, see "