Editor Keybindings

The YAML editor (Dashboard editor and Playground) offers a VSCode-parity keymap: standard editing, multi-cursor selection, and undo/redo bindings on top of the YAML+SQL syntax highlighting and completions.

Bindings below use Mod, which resolves to Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Windows/Linux.

Editing

Binding	Action
Mod-/	Toggle line comment
Mod-] / Mod-[	Indent / dedent selection
Shift-Alt-f	Tidy the document's indentation
Tab	Indent (or insert a tab if the selection is empty), or accept the open completion
Shift-Alt-Up / Shift-Alt-Down	Copy line up / down
Shift-Mod-k	Delete line

Mod-/ inserts # in ordinary YAML. Inside a query: or sql: block-scalar body it inserts -- instead, since the block scalar holds SQL text where # isn't a comment - it's part of the query string.

Enter on a sequence item that already has content starts the next item for you, dash and all: press it after - charts.revenue and the new line opens at -.

Formatting

Shift-Alt-f straightens the document's indentation, and pasted YAML is re-indented to fit where it lands. Both move leading whitespace only - your comments, quoting, key order, blank lines, and the contents of sql: / query: block scalars are left exactly as written, so a file that is already correctly indented comes back byte-for-byte identical. A wrapped value and a multi-line [flow, collection] move with the key they belong to rather than being snapped to the indent grid, and a comment keeps whatever indent you gave it.

Selection and multiple cursors

Binding	Action
Mod-d	Select the next occurrence of the current selection (or the word under the cursor)
Mod-Alt-Up / Mod-Alt-Down	Add a cursor on the line above / below

Navigation

Binding	Action
Alt-Up / Alt-Down	Move the current line up / down
Mod-Alt-g	Go to line

Search

Binding	Action
Mod-f	Open the search panel
F3 / Mod-g	Find next match
Shift-F3 / Shift-Mod-g	Find previous match
Mod-Shift-l	Select all occurrences of the current selection

Search opens in the editor's top-right corner. Use the arrow beside the search field to show or hide the replace controls.

History

Binding	Action
Mod-z	Undo
Mod-Shift-z / Mod-y	Redo

Completions

Binding	Action
Mod-Shift-Space	Open completions (Cmd-Shift-Space on macOS, Ctrl-Shift-Space elsewhere)
Tab	Accept the highlighted completion
Enter	Accept the highlighted completion, except on a line that is still only indentation - there it inserts a new line

The editor also suggests Dataface keys, chart types, and other schema-driven values as you type - Mod-Shift-Space opens the list explicitly if it hasn't appeared on its own. Ctrl-Space also works wherever the operating system hasn't already claimed it, but on macOS it is usually unavailable: it is the input-source switcher, and toggles between input sources instead of reaching the editor whenever two or more are installed. macOS additionally offers Alt-\`` /Alt-i`.

Pressing Enter to open a new indented line lists everything valid at that level before you type anything, so you can read the options rather than guess at them - if orientation is not in the list under a chart, it belongs to one of the nested keys that is (style:). Because nothing has been typed to choose with, Enter on such a line still means "new line"; use Tab (or click) to accept from that list. Type any character and the list narrows to it, and Enter accepts again as usual.

Accepting a key completion inserts a shape appropriate to what that key expects: a scalar value stays on the same line after key:, an object value moves to an indented new line and reopens the list with that object's keys, and a list value moves to an indented new line with - ready for the first item.