Gemini CLI Keyboard Shortcuts

This document lists the available keyboard shortcuts within Gemini CLI.

General

Shortcut	Description
Esc	Close dialogs and suggestions.
Ctrl+C	Cancel the ongoing request and clear the input. Press twice to exit the application.
Ctrl+D	Exit the application if the input is empty. Press twice to confirm.
Ctrl+L	Clear the screen.
Ctrl+S	Allows long responses to print fully, disabling truncation. Use your terminal's scrollback to view the entire output.
Ctrl+S	Toggle copy mode (alternate buffer mode only).
Ctrl+T	Toggle the display of the todo list.
Ctrl+Y	Toggle auto-approval (YOLO mode) for all tool calls.
Shift+Tab	Toggle auto-accepting edits approval mode.
Option+M	Toggle Markdown rendering for messages (raw markdown mode).
F12	Toggle the display of the debug console.

Input Prompt

Shortcut	Description
!	Toggle shell mode when the input is empty.
\ (at end of line) + Enter	Insert a newline.
Down Arrow	Navigate down through the input history.
Enter	Submit the current prompt.
Meta+Delete / Ctrl+Delete	Delete the word to the right of the cursor.
Tab	Autocomplete the current suggestion if one exists.
Up Arrow	Navigate up through the input history.
Ctrl+A / Home	Move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl+B / Left Arrow	Move the cursor one character to the left.
Ctrl+C	Clear the input prompt
Esc (double press)	Clear the input prompt.
Ctrl+D / Delete	Delete the character to the right of the cursor.
Ctrl+E / End	Move the cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl+F / Right Arrow	Move the cursor one character to the right. Ctrl+F also toggles focus between input and interactive shell if active.
Ctrl+H / Backspace	Delete the character to the left of the cursor.
Ctrl+K	Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl+Left Arrow / Meta+Left Arrow / Meta+B	Move the cursor one word to the left.
Ctrl+N	Navigate down through the input history.
Ctrl+P	Navigate up through the input history.
Ctrl+R	Activate reverse command search history.
Ctrl+Right Arrow / Meta+Right Arrow / Meta+F	Move the cursor one word to the right.
Ctrl+U	Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl+V	Paste clipboard content. If the clipboard contains an image, it will be saved and a reference to it will be inserted in the prompt.
Ctrl+W / Meta+Backspace / Ctrl+Backspace	Delete the word to the left of the cursor.
Ctrl+X / Meta+Enter	Open the current input in an external editor.
Ctrl+Z	Undo last text edit.
Ctrl+Shift+Z	Redo last undone text edit.

Suggestions

Shortcut	Description
Down Arrow / Ctrl+N	Navigate down through the suggestions.
Tab / Enter	Accept the selected suggestion.
Up Arrow / Ctrl+P	Navigate up through the suggestions.

Radio Button Select

Shortcut	Description
Down Arrow / j	Move selection down.
Enter	Confirm selection.
Up Arrow / k	Move selection up.
1-9	Select an item by its number.
(multi-digit)	For items with numbers greater than 9, press the digits in quick succession to select the corresponding item.

IDE Integration

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl+G	See context CLI received from IDE

Meta+key combos on mac

On Mac, all Meta+char combos should work normally except for these three which are mapped to special functionality.

• meta+b: "∫" back one word
• meta+f: "ƒ" forward one word
• meta+m: "µ" toggle markup view