Menu bar

The menu bar is the top line of the window. It holds every command of the app in seven menus: File, Edit, View, Graph, Assistant, Sync, Help. At its right end is the sync indicator. The toolbar, the canvas menus and the keyboard shortcuts run the same commands, so a command does the same thing wherever you start it.

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#The menus

#How to use the menu bar

1. Click a menu name. The menu opens.
2. Click an item. A grey item cannot run right now; for most of them the reason is the state of the graph (nothing selected, a history replay is showing, no build is running).
3. A shortcut is written on the right of an item. It works without opening the menu.

With the keyboard:

1. Press Alt alone, or F10. The first menu, File, gets the focus.
2. Left and Right move between menus, Down opens a menu, Up and Down move between items, Enter runs the item.
3. Escape closes the menu. Focus goes back to where it was.

#Items with a mark or an arrow

• A tick in front of an item (for example View ▸ Minimap) means it is on. Choosing it again turns it off.
• An arrow at the right end (for example View ▸ Language) opens a short list; a dot marks the current choice.

#Limits

• On a Latin keyboard (QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak) press the key marked with the letter. On a Russian or another non-Latin layout press the key in the same place as on a US keyboard: Ctrl+Z is the «я» key.
• Most shortcuts do nothing while the cursor is in a text field or a menu is open. Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Shift+S, Ctrl+O, Ctrl+N and Ctrl+Shift+C work everywhere. F1 works while you type too, but not over another dialog.
• F6 and Shift+F6 move between the menu bar and the other parts of the window. See The window.

#See also

• Toolbar
• Keyboard shortcuts window
• Settings ▸ Shortcuts
• Canvas menus
• All keyboard shortcuts