Here you can find a list of keyboard shortcuts you can use when you connect an external keyboard to your iPad.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts supported by iOS / iPad:
- Cmd+A - Select All
- Cmd+C - Copy
- Cmd+X - Cut
- Cmd+V - Paste
- Cmd+Z - Undo
- Cmd+Shift+Z - Redo
- Shift+Arrow - Select text
- Cmd+Up/Down - Move cursor to the beginning/end of the file
- Cmd+Left/Right - Move cursor to beginning/end of the current line
- Alt+Left/Right - Move cursor to the previous/next word
- Esc - Bring up virtual on-screen keyboard
- Alt-Delete - Delete the word to the left of the cursor
- Cmd-Delete - Delete everything on the current line to the left of the cursor
iOS also supports these Emacs keybindings:
- Ctrl-A - Move cursor to the beginning of the line
- Ctrl-E - Move cursor to the end of the line
- Ctrl-F - Move cursor forward one character
- Ctrl-B - Move cursor backward one character
- Ctrl-K - Kill/delete text between cursor and the end of the line
- Ctrl-H - Delete one character to the left
In addition, Textastic supports these shortcuts:
- Tab - Indent selected text
- Shift-Tab - Unindent selected text
- Cmd-N - create new file/folder
- Cmd-F - toggle find/replace
- Cmd-W - close current file
- Alt-Cmd-P - toggle preview
- Alt-Cmd-I - toggle file properties popover
- Alt-Cmd-T - toggle symbol list popover
- Alt-Cmd-Up - upload current file
- Alt-Cmd-Down - download current file
- Cmd-I - toggle italics (works in Markdown and HTML files)
- Cmd-B - toggle boldface (works in Markdown and HTML files)
- Cmd-U - toggle underline (works in HTML files)