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Navigation
The keymap is vim-flavoured: j/k move, h/l move between panes, H/L step through sub-tabs, and most verbs are a single letter. Inside the app, ? opens the full reference, and : runs any command by name, so you don’t need to remember the key.
Anywhere
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| S / R / P | Service / region / profile picker, each fuzzy-filtered as you type |
| @ | Search bar seeded with @, for a fast service switch |
| / | Fuzzy search the current service |
| r | Refresh: the whole service from the list, just this resource from the detail pane |
| w | Watch mode (auto-refresh); + / - tune the interval |
| , | Macros: Enter run, n record, , again to stop recording |
| ` | Jump list (navigation history) |
| B / ’ | Bookmark this location / open bookmarks |
| M | Message history (past errors and toasts) |
| \ | Flat detail view: every section in one scroll |
| : | Command picker: type what you want (network, metrics) and Enter runs its key. What works on the selection is listed first |
| ? / q | Help, led by the keys that work here; type to filter it / quit |
List pane
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| j k ↑ ↓ | Move |
| gg / G | Top / bottom |
| Ctrl-d / Ctrl-u | Half page |
| l → Enter | Open the detail pane |
| Backspace Ctrl-O | Back through history |
| Ctrl-F | Forward again, after going back |
| Tab / Shift-Tab, 1–9, 0 | Switch sub-tab |
| H / L | Previous / next sub-tab (from either pane) |
| a | Hide noisy rows (defaults, automated snapshots, passed checks…) |
| z | Cycle sort: load order → name ↑ → name ↓ → state (→ service, under @all) |
| F | Cycle a filter over the states present in this view |
| V, J / K | Visual row selection; Ctrl-A selects all |
| y | Copy the id or ARN, or the selection as a Markdown table |
| C | Copy an AWS CLI command: the read command, plus start/stop, scale, force-deploy and connect commands where they apply (copied, never run; see What’s new) |
| X / Ctrl-X | Export the resource (deep) / the list |
Detail pane
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| j k, gg / G | Scroll |
| Tab / Shift-Tab, 1–9 | Switch section |
| H / L | Previous / next sub-tab, staying in the detail pane |
| [[ / ]] | Previous / next group header |
| l → Enter | Follow the link under the cursor |
| h ← Esc | Back to the list |
| Backspace Ctrl-O | Back through history (the ← at the service strip’s left edge lights when there’s somewhere to go) |
| Ctrl-F | Forward again, after going back (→ on the service strip) |
| / | Filter the body text; matches are marked, and n / N step through them |
| Ctrl-W | Wrap long values onto continuation rows, instead of clipping them at the pane edge |
| y / c | Copy the row, or the visual selection |
| C | Copy an AWS CLI command for this resource (same picker as the list) |
| e | Open in $EDITOR |
| Z | Full-width pane |
Following links
Rows that end in → are links: an instance’s subnet, a role’s ARN, a
CloudFormation stack name in a tag, an S3 URI in a Glue job. Enter
follows them across services, and across regions where the target lives
elsewhere. Backspace, Ctrl-O or a right-click walks
back through the history you built, Ctrl-F comes forward again
like a browser, and ` shows the whole jump list. A new jump after
going back drops the forward history.
Mouse
Everything on screen that names a key can be clicked. The keyboard is still faster, but nothing needs it.
| Gesture | Does |
|---|---|
| Click | Select a row, switch a tab or section, open a picker from a badge, press a status-bar hint (m metrics, W trail…) |
| Double-click | Enter: open the detail pane, follow a link, confirm a picker row, drill into a folder |
Click a → | Follow that link |
| Click the detail pane’s title bar | Full width (Z) |
Click ← / → at the service strip’s left edge | Back / forward through history |
Click a ‹ / › | Scroll the tabs |
| Wheel | Scroll the list, the detail body, a picker, or an in-pane view (scrolling up in a log tail pauses it) |
| Drag | Select a range of rows; y copies them |
| Right-click | Back (Ctrl-O); in a popup or an in-pane view, close it |
| Click outside a popup | Close it |
neboto captures the mouse, so a plain drag selects rows rather than text. Hold Shift while dragging for your terminal’s own text selection (Option in iTerm2).