Keyboard shortcut to delete or cut the current chunk in RStudio

yx749 · November 23, 2021, 11:21am

There are keyboard shortcuts for inserting and running chunks. Is there a keyboard shortcut to delete or cut the current chunk? Currently I just use shift to select multiple lines and delete them.

I am switching from Jupyter notebook to R Markdown because of its awesome features and advantages. In Jupyter, there are keyboard shortcuts for manipulations on cells (like chunks in Rmd), including insert/run/cut/copy/move etc. I wonder are there equivalent keyboard shortcuts in Rstudio?

jonathan · November 30, 2021, 12:36am

Nope, not yet. I see you filed a feature request though, thanks!

For posterity, if folks want to comment/upvote:

github.com/rstudio/rstudio

Keyboard shortcuts to cut/delete code chunks in R Markdown

opened 08:13PM - 27 Nov 21 UTC

closed 02:15AM - 12 Jun 22 UTC

yuanx749

enhancement info needed key bindings stale

There are buttons and keyboard shortcuts to insert and run code chunks in RStudi…o. It will be great that more options could be added, such as delete/cut/paste. Now my workaround is to use `shift` to select lines or fold the chunk and delete it, which is a bit tedious. Jupyter Notebook supports many operations on cells like insert/run/cut/copy/move, with corresponding keyboard shortcuts. However, in my opinion R Markdown has advantanges in many usecases. Therefore, it would be super helpful if these sorts of features could be implemented in Rmd. Thanks for this excellent product!

yx749 · November 30, 2021, 2:31pm

Thank you! I just want to make sure similar request has not been filed before, so I asked here first

system · December 21, 2021, 2:31pm

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