Space Menu

The space menu is a handy shortcut for (not restricted to):

• Contextual actions
• Searching files/symbols
• Multi-cursor management
• Opening other components

The space menu can be brought up by pressing space.

Contextual actions

Contextual actions are actions that are only applicable within a specific context.

LSP Actions (only applicable in the main editor):

Keybinding	Action
c	Request code actions
h	Request hover info
r	Rename current symbol

File Explorer Actions:

Keybinding	Action
a	Add a new file/folder under the current path 1
d	Delete current file/folder
m	Move (or rename) the current file/folder 2
r	Refresh the file explorer 3

Pickers

Keybinding	Object
b	Buffers (opened files)
f	Files (Not git ignored)
g	Git status (against current branch) 1
G	Git status (against main branch) 2
s	LSP Symbols
t	Themes

Searching is powered by Helix's Nucleo, and some fzf-esque search syntax works here:

Token	Description
sbt	Items that match sbt, for example serbian-bear-tinker
'wild	Items that must include wild
.mp3$	Items that end with .mp3

Search terms can be separated by space, which means AND, and their order is unimportant.

For example, the search query stb 'wild matches wild-serbian-bear-tiger and also stubbornly_wild.

Because every component is a buffer/editor, fuzzy search logic is also used for filtering LSP completions.

Multi-cursor

Keybinding	Action
a	Add cursor to all selections in the current selection mode 1
o	Keeps only the primary selections

Opening other components

Keybinding	Action
e	Reveal current file in file explorer
z	Opens the Undo Tree 1

Picking themes

See more at Themes

Footnotes

1. To add a folder, append / to the file name. Can be nested, and new directories will be created as required. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. Works like mkdir -p, it will create new directories when required. ↩ ↩²

3. This is necessary sometimes because the file system is modified by external factors, and Ki does not watch for file changes. ↩