Detent Point
This table is generated from the app’s own key bindings, not from a spec document. If a gesture is listed here, the binding exists in the code that ships. The ISE column marks gestures that use the same key as Windows PowerShell ISE. That column is most of the table on purpose: if your hands know the ISE, they already know DetentShell.
| Shortcut | Action | ISE |
|---|---|---|
| Run & debug | ||
F5 | Run the script, or Continue when stopped at a breakpoint | Same key |
F8 | Run the selected text | Same key |
Shift+F5 | Stop debugging | Same key |
Ctrl+Break | Break all: pause a running script in the debugger | Same key |
F9 | Toggle a breakpoint on the caret line | Same key |
F10 | Step over | Same key |
F11 | Step into | Same key |
Shift+F11 | Step out | Same key |
| Files, tabs & sessions | ||
Ctrl+N | New script tab | Same key |
Ctrl+O | Open a file | Same key |
Ctrl+S | Save | Same key |
Ctrl+W | Close the active script tab | n/a |
Ctrl+T | New PowerShell session tab (the ISE’s “New PowerShell Tab”) | Same key |
Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Cycle the session’s script tabs forward / back | Same key |
Ctrl+Shift+R | New remote PowerShell tab (WinRM) | Same key |
Ctrl+Shift+P | Start a PowerShell 7 console window | Same key |
| Editing | ||
Ctrl+Space | Start IntelliSense at the caret | Same key |
Ctrl+J | Open the snippet picker | Same key |
Ctrl+/ | Comment / uncomment the selection in one gesture | New in DetentShell |
Ctrl+M | Toggle outlining expansion (fold / unfold regions) | Same key |
Ctrl+] | Go to the matching brace | Same key |
Ctrl+I | Move focus to the script pane | Same key |
Ctrl+D | Move focus to the console | Same key |
| Find & navigate | ||
Ctrl+F | Find | Same key |
F3 / Shift+F3 | Find next / find previous | Same key |
Ctrl+H | Find and replace | Same key |
Ctrl+G | Go to line | Same key |
| Help | ||
F1 | Show help for the command under the caret, in the Help pane | Same key |
On many keyboards the Break key is shared with Pause, so Ctrl+Break and Ctrl+Pause are the same physical press. With the IntelliSense list open, Tab always accepts the highlighted completion; whether Enter also accepts is a setting. The editor component DetentShell is built on normally claims Ctrl+D for delete-line; that default is deliberately overridden so the ISE’s go-to-console gesture wins from anywhere in the window.
See these gestures in action in the how-tos → · New here? Start with getting started →
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