Keyboard reference

RED is operable almost entirely from the keyboard. Every discrete action lives in the command palette (⌘KCtrl+K) - the complete, searchable list, phase-aware so it only offers what's actionable - and the common ones also have the direct bindings below. Press ⌘/Ctrl+/ in-app for the shortcut reference as an overlay.

Cross-platform bindings

The bindings below are spelled for the platform you're reading on. RED's primary modifier is Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Windows and Linux, and the in-app reference (⌘/Ctrl+/) follows the same rule, so what you see here is what your machine shows. Every binding is remappable in Settings, or by hand in keymap.toml, which reloads live.

Global

Key	Action
`⌘KCtrl+K`	Command palette
`⌘PCtrl+P`	Switch connection
`⌘⇧PCtrl+Shift+P`	Switch to the previous connection
`⌘1Ctrl+1`–`9`	Jump to a connection by position
`⌘LCtrl+L`	Toggle the AI assistant
`⌘OCtrl+O`	Go to a table or view (fuzzy)
`⌘/Ctrl+/`	Keyboard-shortcuts overlay
`⌘,Ctrl+,`	Settings
`⌘NCtrl+N`	New connection (welcome screen)
`⌘QCtrl+Q`	Quit

Panes and focus

Key	Action
hold `⌥Alt`	Show a jump key on every panel, then press it
`F6` / `⇧F6Shift+F6`	Cycle focus forward / back
`⌘BCtrl+B`	Toggle the schema sidebar
`⌘YCtrl+Y`	Toggle the history panel
`⌘⇧CCtrl+Shift+C`	Toggle the reference-columns panel
`⌘\Ctrl+\`	Split the focused pane right
`⌘⇧\Ctrl+Shift+\`	Split the focused pane down
`⌥⌘\Ctrl+Alt+\`	Focus the next pane
`⌥⌘WCtrl+Alt+W`	Close a pane into its neighbour
`⌘⇧↩Ctrl+Shift+↩`	Zoom / restore a pane
`⌥⌘0Ctrl+Alt+0`	Equalize pane sizes

Focus jumps moved to a held modifier

The old ⌥⌘1Ctrl+Alt+1 / ⌥⌘2Ctrl+Alt+2 / ⌥⌘3Ctrl+Alt+3 jumps are retired. They named the SQL shell's three panes, which the Redis and MongoDB shells had to pun onto or ignore; holding ⌥Alt reaches every surface in every shell with one gesture. A keymap.toml binding them still loads, and those keys now cycle focus. The trigger, hold delay and hint keys are settings (keymap.focus_overlay), including turning the overlay off.

Query tabs

Key	Action
`⌘TCtrl+T`	New tab
`⌘WCtrl+W`	Close tab (confirms if it holds unsaved work)
`⌃TabCtrl+Tab` / `⌃⇧TabCtrl+Shift+Tab`	Next / previous tab
`⌘↵Ctrl+↵`	Run the active tab's query (or selection) - works from any pane
`⌥⌘↵Ctrl+Alt+↵`	Run the whole buffer as a script
`⌘FCtrl+F`	Find in the query
`⇧⌘ECtrl+Shift+E`	Explain the query (plan)
`⌥⌘FCtrl+Alt+F`	Format SQL
`⇧⌘SCtrl+Shift+S` / `⇧⌘OCtrl+Shift+O`	Save query / open a saved query
`Esc`	Leave the editor for the result grid (when no completion is open)

Result grid

Focus the grid (hold ⌥Alt and press its hint key, or click a cell), then drive the cell cursor:

Key	Action
`↑ ↓ ← →`	Move the cell cursor
`⇧Shift` + arrows	Extend the selection
`⌘←Ctrl+←` / `⌘→Ctrl+→`	Row start / end
`⌘↑Ctrl+↑` / `⌘↓Ctrl+↓`	First / last row
`PgUp` / `PgDn`	Page up / down
`⌘ACtrl+A`	Select all
`⌃GCtrl+G`	Go to row…
`⌘CCtrl+C`	Copy the selection (TSV)
`⌘ICtrl+I`	Inspect the cell / row
`⌘FCtrl+F`	Find in the loaded rows
`⌘⇧FCtrl+Shift+F`	Filter rows to a `WHERE` clause
`⌥⌘PCtrl+Alt+P`	Pin the selected row(s) under the header

The cursor lives in absolute row ordinals while the grid is windowed over a multi-million-row result; moving off the visible window re-centers it through the same paging machinery the scrollbar uses, so it follows without stutter.

Editing data

Edits are staged - make a batch of changes in the grid, then review and submit them together (or revert):

Key	Action
`↵` / `F2`	Edit the focused cell
`⌘↵Ctrl+↵`	Submit the staged changes
`⌥⌘ZCtrl+Alt+Z`	Revert the staged changes
`⌘⌫Ctrl+⌫`	Mark row(s) for deletion
`⌥⌘NCtrl+Alt+N`	Add a new row
`⌥⌘0Ctrl+Alt+0`	Set the cell to `NULL`

Schema tree

Key	Action
`↑` / `↓`	Move the selection
`←` / `→`	Collapse / expand (or jump to parent / first child)
`↵`	Open a table/view preview, or toggle a namespace
`⌘FCtrl+F`	Search the schema - reveals the sidebar and focuses its filter field
`⌘RCtrl+R`	Refresh the schema

⌘FCtrl+F works from anywhere (it reveals a collapsed sidebar first); type to filter the tree live, then ↓ into the results.

MongoDB browser

Key	Action
`↑` / `↓`	Move the selection (collection tree, document grid)
`←` / `→`	Collapse / expand a database
`↵` / `F2`	Open the highlighted collection / document
`⌘FCtrl+F`	Search collections (tree) / filter documents (grid)

Welcome screen

Key	Action
`↑` / `↓`	Move between saved connections
`←` / `→`	Page the list
`Home` / `End`	Jump to the first / last connection
`↵`	Connect to the highlighted one
`/`	Search connections
`E`	Edit the highlighted connection
`⌫`	Remove the highlighted connection
`⌘NCtrl+N`	New connection

Dialogs

Key	Action
`↵`	Confirm / connect
`Esc`	Cancel / close
`Tab` / `⇧TabShift+Tab`	Cycle controls (trapped)

An optional keymap setting adds hjkl, g / G, 0 / $, and Ctrl-d / Ctrl-u motions to the result grid, schema tree, key browser, document grid and history dock, alongside the arrow keys. Off by default; applies live.