Read from the app's keybinding definitions rather than transcribed by hand.
Ctrl on Windows and Linux, Cmd on macOS — every chord below accepts either.
Ctrl/Cmd + C — copy the selection.
Ctrl/Cmd + X — cut the selection.
Ctrl/Cmd + V — paste, including an image or raw SVG from your clipboard.
Ctrl/Cmd + Z — undo.
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z — redo.
Delete or Backspace — delete the selection.
Esc — clear the selection.
Copy and paste work across files — cut an element in one component and paste it into another.
Undo and redo are shared with anything an agent does over MCP: an agent's edit is an ordinary step on the same stack.
Ctrl/Cmd + R — reopen the last closed tab.
↑ — select the parent.
↓ — move one place later among siblings.
← → — move one place earlier / later among siblings.
These reorder; they do not nudge position.
Three conditions have to hold for ← → ↓ to do anything: the element is position: relative, its parent is a flex container, and the parent's direction matches the key's axis — ← → in a row, ↓ in a column. An absolutely positioned element cannot be moved by keyboard at all.
↑ is the exception and is deliberately not the mirror of ↓: it always walks up the tree, in every layout, so the key means one thing everywhere. There is no keyboard shortcut for "move one place earlier in a column" — use ← in a row, or drag in the element tree.
While you are editing a path or a mesh, the arrow keys belong to that editor and do not reorder anything.
Held while dragging or clicking, rather than pressed on their own.
Shift while clicking an element, tree row or breadcrumb — add to the selection instead of replacing it.
Shift while dragging an element — suppress snapping, and place it freely.
Shift while dragging on the selection box — marquee instead of move.
Shift while clicking a path anchor — toggle that anchor in or out of the selection.
Cmd while clicking a path anchor — toggle it between corner and smooth.
Option/Alt while dragging a bezier handle — break handle mirroring, so the two sides move independently.
Ctrl/Cmd while scrolling in the timeline — zoom the timeline. The zoom is remembered per timeline.
Worth stating, because these are muscle memory from other tools:
No nudge. Arrow keys reorder; they do not move an element by a pixel.
No group or ungroup, so no chord for it. Nesting is the grouping model.
No align or distribute across a selection.
No bring-to-front or send-to-back. Stacking is tree order.
No Duplicate command. Copy and paste instead. (An agent has duplicate-node; the editor has no equivalent.)
No timeline transport shortcuts — no play/pause chord, no step, no add-keyframe key. Delete and Ctrl/Cmd + scroll are the only timeline keys.
Canvas and elements — what the selection and the tree actually are.
MCP tools — the same operations, available to an agent.