Key Strokes

Jalview recognises the following keystrokes.

Escape - Clears the current selection region, highlighted columns and highlghted residues

Control 'A' - Selects all sequences in the alignment.

Control 'C' - Copies the selected region, in Fasta format (Not applet, as no clipboard is available)

Control 'V' - Pastes the selected file (Can be external to Jalview) to a new alignment window.

Control 'X' - Cuts the selected region from the alignment window.

Control 'Z' - Undoes the last sequence edit.

Control 'F' - Launches the search window.

Up Arrow - Moves selected sequence(s) up the alignment

Down Arrow - Moves selected sequence(s) down the alignment.

F1 - Show Help Documentation

F2 - Toggle Cursor mode on / off

With Cursor mode on....

• Cursor keys - Move cursor around the alignment.

• Space - Insert a gap at the cursor position.
  To insert 12 spaces at the current cursor, type 12 before pressing Space.
  To group insert, hold control or shift together with space.

• Delete - Delete a gap at the cursor position.
  To delete 12 spaces at the current cursor, type 12 before pressing Delete.
  To group delete, hold down control or shift together with Delete.

• S - Type a number x then press 'S' to jump to sequence x.

• C - Type a number x then press 'C' to jump to column x.

• P - Type a number x then press 'P' to jump to position x in current sequence.

• Q - Define the top left corner of the selection area

• M - Define the bottom right corner of the selection area
  
• 65,82<return> - Quick jump to column 65, sequence 82