Keyboard shortcuts in DataStax Studio

Studio notebooks have keyboard shortcuts to increase your proficiency while writing code and content. Mode depends on cursor location:

Edit mode when focus is on a cell editor.
Command mode when focus is on the cell.

Edit mode keyboard shortcuts

⌥⇧+⌘

Shortcut Description

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl+Shift+?	Display Shortcut help.
Esc	Unfocus the editor and focus the cell (switch to Command mode).
Shift+Enter	No highlights - Save code and execute cell. Highlighted statement or statements - Execute only the selected statements. Partial statements are available only in CQL and Spark SQL cells. Select and run only complete statements in Gremlin cells.
Ctrl+Space	Schema aware content assist provides smart suggestions based on your data model. The proposed content depends on the selected keyspace.
Ctrl+L	Toggle line numbers.
Ctrl+/ (Macintosh OS X: ⌘+/)	Toggle comment.
Ctrl+H	Hide the editor and focus on the cell (switch to Command mode).
Ctrl+Alt+H	Add a new cell below and switch to its editor.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H	Add a new cell above and switch to its editor.
Ctrl+Shift+S	Toggle schema view.
Ctrl+Shift+Down (Macintosh OS X: `⇧+⌘+Down`)	Focus on the cell below, entering its Command mode.
Ctrl+Shift+Up (Macintosh OS X: `⇧+⌘+Up`)	Focus on the cell above, entering its Command mode.
Alt+Backspace (Macintosh OS X: `⌘+Backspace`	Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Alt+Delete (Macintosh OS X: `⌘+Delete`	Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.

Ctrl+Shift+?

Display Shortcut help.

Esc

Unfocus the editor and focus the cell (switch to Command mode).

Shift+Enter

No highlights - Save code and execute cell.
Highlighted statement or statements - Execute only the selected statements. Partial statements are available only in CQL and Spark SQL cells. Select and run only complete statements in Gremlin cells.

Ctrl+Space

Schema aware content assist provides smart suggestions based on your data model. The proposed content depends on the selected keyspace.

Ctrl+L

Toggle line numbers.

Ctrl+/ (Macintosh OS X: ⌘+/)

Toggle comment.

Ctrl+H

Hide the editor and focus on the cell (switch to Command mode).

Ctrl+Alt+H

Add a new cell below and switch to its editor.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H

Add a new cell above and switch to its editor.

Ctrl+Shift+S

Toggle schema view.

Ctrl+Shift+Down (Macintosh OS X: ⇧+⌘+Down)

Focus on the cell below, entering its Command mode.

Ctrl+Shift+Up (Macintosh OS X: ⇧+⌘+Up)

Focus on the cell above, entering its Command mode.

Alt+Backspace (Macintosh OS X: ⌘+Backspace

Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.

Alt+Delete (Macintosh OS X: ⌘+Delete

Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.

Command mode keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut Description

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl+Shift+?	Display Shortcut help.
Enter	Focus on the cell’s code editor (switch to Edit mode).
Delete (Macintosh OS X: `fn+Backspace`)	Delete the current cell and focus on next available cell.
H	Toggle editor visibility.
N	Add new cell below and switch to its editor.
Shift+N	Add new cell above and switch to its editor.
S	Toggle Schema view.
Up	Switch to the cell above.
Down	Switch to the cell below.
Shift+Up	Move current cell up.
Shift+Down	Move current cell down.

Ctrl+Shift+?

Display Shortcut help.

Enter

Focus on the cell’s code editor (switch to Edit mode).

Delete (Macintosh OS X: fn+Backspace)

Delete the current cell and focus on next available cell.

Toggle editor visibility.

Add new cell below and switch to its editor.

Shift+N

Add new cell above and switch to its editor.

Toggle Schema view.

Switch to the cell above.

Down

Switch to the cell below.

Shift+Up

Move current cell up.

Shift+Down

Move current cell down.

Keyboard shortcuts in DataStax Studio

Edit mode keyboard shortcuts

Command mode keyboard shortcuts

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