Menus and shortcuts
At the top of the Anjuta main window is the menu bar. You can access almost all of Anjuta's functionality through menu items. Operations have been grouped according to their type. For example, file operations have been grouped into the menu.
Shortcut keys are available for many menu items. All shortcut keys are shown alongside the corresponding menu items. Some other useful shortcuts are listed here.
- Switch Editor Page: Ctrl+Alt+Page Up (forward) and Ctrl+Alt+Page Down (backward). You can also switch pages by right-clicking on the notebook tabs and selecting a filename from the pop-up menu (useful when all the tabs in the editor are not visible at once). Some desktop configurations may already have these shortcut keys assigned. In that case, you will need to reconfigure them (not in Anjuta, because they are fixed) if you want to use these shortcuts.
- Context Help: Shift+F1. Place the cursor on the word (for example, the function name) for which you want to get API help and type this shortcut. Context help only works if you have Devhelp installed; otherwise, the context help menu and toolbar button will be inactive. You can get Devhelp from the Devhelp website. You will also have to install the related Devhelp books.
- Autocomplete: Ctrl+Enter. Type this shortcut with the cursor placed at the end of an incomplete word and a list of words matching the remaining part will appear. Scroll and select the right word from the list if you find one.
- More shortcuts: Look for the shortcut keys displayed on the right side of menu item labels. Shortcuts can also be changed as explained in the tip below.
Customize shortcuts
You can change the default shortcuts by choosing and selecting the Shortcuts tab.