Keyboard Reference

All keyboard shortcuts in Explorer, organized by context. Press ? at any time to see this reference inside the app.

Pipeline Panel (left)

These keys are active when the pipeline list has focus.

Key	Action
↑ / k	Move cursor up
↓ / j	Move cursor down
a	Add stage after cursor
A	Add stage before cursor
d	Delete stage (with confirmation)
e	Edit stage arguments
Space	Toggle stage enabled/disabled
J	Reorder stage down
K	Reorder stage up
r	Re-run from cursor stage (invalidate cache)
Enter / Tab	Focus inspector panel

Inspector Panel (right)

These keys are active when the inspector has focus.

Key	Action
↑ / k	Scroll records up
↓ / j	Scroll records down
t	Cycle view mode: table → prettyprint → json → schema
← / h	Move column highlight left (table view)
→ / l	Move column highlight right (table view)
Enter	Open record detail (tree view)
Esc	Clear column highlight, or return focus to pipeline

Quick Actions

When a column is highlighted in table view (navigate with h/l), these one-key shortcuts create a new stage targeting the highlighted field:

Key	Action
g	Add grep stage filtering on the highlighted field
s	Add sort stage sorting by the highlighted field
c	Add collate stage grouping by the highlighted field (with count)
F	Open Field Spotlight — value distribution for the highlighted field

After pressing g, s, or c, the edit modal opens so you can fine-tune the stage arguments before confirming.

Global

These keys work regardless of which panel is focused.

Key	Action
Tab	Toggle focus between pipeline and inspector
u	Undo last pipeline edit
Ctrl+R	Redo last undone edit
v	Open current stage's records in $EDITOR
x	Export pipeline as shell script → clipboard
X	Export pipeline (choose format)
S	Save/rename session
f	Fork pipeline at cursor stage
b	Switch/manage forks
i	Switch input source
p	Pin/unpin stage for selective caching
?	Toggle help panel
q / Ctrl+C	Quit (auto-saves session)