Crucible 2.8 : Using Keyboard Shortcuts in Crucible

Crucible provides a number of keyboard shortcuts, allowing you to quickly carry out certain actions without the mouse. Keyboard shortcuts are available for most of the commonly-used functions in Crucible.

To see a list of available shortcuts, firstly navigate to a review in Crucible. Now open the 'Tools' drop-down menu at the top right corner of the screen, and select the 'Keyboard Shortcuts' option.

See the tables below for full details:

General Shortcuts

Key

Function

?

Opens reference list of keyboard shortcuts.

escape

Closes reference list of keyboard shortcuts.

alt

Hold down then click and drag to select source line contents.

shift + f

Toggle full screen review mode.

Custom Navigation

KeyFunction
,(Comma) Go to the previous element, which can be a file, comment or defect, depending on your current context.
.(Period) Go to the next element, which can be a file, comment or defect, depending on your current context.

Comment Navigation Shortcuts

Key

Function

n

Go to next review comment.

p

Go to previous review comment.

shift + p

Go to first review comment.

shift + n

Go to last review comment.

l

Go to next thread (skips replies).

h

Go to previous thread (skips replies).

]

Go to next unread comment.

[

Go to previous unread comment.

r

Reply to a comment.

m

Toggle comment read/unread status.

File Navigation Shortcuts

Key

Function

j

Go to next file.

k

Go to previous file.

shift + k

Go to first file.

shift + j

Go to last file.

u

Go to next unreviewed file.

i

Go to previous unreviewed file.

y

Set file reviewed and go to next unreviewed file.

shift + y

Toggle file reviewed/unreviewed status.

e

Expand current file.

c

Collapse current file.

shift + e

Expand all files.

shift + c

Collapse all files.