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# Keyboard Shortcuts

Xonsh comes pre-baked with a few keyboard shortcuts. The following is only available under the prompt-toolkit shell.

Shortcut | Description
--- | ---
Ctrl-Backspace (or Ctrl-H) | Delete a single word (like Alt-Backspace)
Ctrl-X + Ctrl-E | Open the current buffer in your default text editor.
Ctrl-D | Exit xonsh and return to original terminal. If not called by another terminal, then exit current terminal window. Similar to `exit`.
Ctrl-J | Similar to enter in a few respects: 1. Execute the current buffer. 2. End and execute a multiline statement.
Ctrl-M | Same as Ctrl-J
Shift-Left OR Shift-Right | Highlight one character in either direction
Ctrl-Shift-Left OR Ctrl-Shift-Right | Highlight one word in either direction
Ctrl-X + Ctrl-C | Copy highlighted section
Ctrl-X + Ctrl-X | Cut highlighted section
Ctrl-V | Paste clipboard contents
Ctrl-Right | Complete a single auto-suggestion word