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The menu

C-q opens the menu: everything you can do where you are, each with one letter. It is how to find a key, and how to act from a pane whose keys go to a program. TIDE takes so few keys of its own that the menu holds the rest.

What you see

Section titled “What you see”
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The menu in parts, the narrowest first: what is selected, the list, then TIDE and the project. Click, scroll and type: it is live, and runs nothing.

Keys

Section titled “Keys”

The menu’s parts, each shown only where it applies:

Part Letters
An agent, in the list or its tab i info, c new child, r rename, R new session, g start again once ended, x remove
A terminal’s tab g start again, x remove
A worktree o open and go, R rebase, x remove once landed; on a file, v verified; in its tab, L land and C commit
Code e edit, n new file, N new directory, r rename, x delete
A tab, in the right pane - close it
The list, in the project pane / filter, f read git again, z fold the section, or open it
Global a new agent, t new terminal, p the project menu, s settings, S stats, P prompts unreleased, H the sessions into this node while one is open, q quit
The project menu (p) o open a project, s switch, c close the one shown, x remove it from wdx
A program in focus \, ] and C-q send C-\, C-] and C-q to it

How it behaves

Section titled “How it behaves”
  • A letter acts at once, with no wait: C-q x removes, after its confirmation. Enter runs the line selected, Esc closes the menu.
  • No two parts share a letter while shown together, so a letter means one thing wherever it shows.
  • In the project pane, the letters work without C-q: nothing there takes typing but the filter. In the agent and terminal panes keys go to the program, so they keep C-q.
  • The status line lists the keys of the menu shown, and outside the menu the keys of where you are.
  • Confirmations come before what cannot be undone or stops something running: removing, restarting, closing a project with something running. Starting again and closing a tab ask nothing, as they lose nothing.
  • Firefox on Linux quits on C-q before a web page sees it, so this site’s demo also opens the menu with Ctrl+Space. TIDE itself, in your terminal, is C-q.