Special Keys

IceChat 9 has some keyboard shortcuts for opening windows and other functions.

Copy text

Select the text to be copied with the mouse. The text is copied into the clipboard.

Copy hypertext (link)

Press the middle key when pointing to the link. The link is copied to the clipboard.

F5

Toggles the multi line edit box

CTRL + A

Selects all the text in the single or multi line inputbox.

CTRL + B

Bold

CTRL + I

Italic

CTRL + U

Underline

CTRL + K + any number between 0-71

sets color code for the text that follows it.

CTRL + R

Reverses the colors of the text and background. If your text is white on black, typing CTRL + R in the Input Line will show the following text as black on white.

CTRL + backspace

Deletes one word back in the Input Line.

CTRL + D

Opens the debug window.

CTRL + F

Opens the Fonts window.

CTRL + G

Opens the Colors window.

CTRL + S

Opens the IceChat Editor

CTRL + P

Opens the Settings window

CTRL + W

When in a channel, parts that channel, and focuses on the next server in the server tree

CTRL + Tab

Moves the focus from the current window to the next, by order of the tabs on the channel bar.

CTRL + PageUp

Moves the focus from the current window to the next, by order of the tabs on the channel bar.

CTRL + PageDown

Moves the focus from the current window to the previous, by order of the tabs on the channel bar.

CTRL + back

or

CTRL + forward

Jumps one word back (or forward) in the Input Line.

CTRL + up

or

CTRL + down

Leafs up or down the history of sent text. This key combination works for both, the single and multi line inputbox.

UP key

or

DOWN key

Leafs up or down the history of sent text. Works only for the single input text line.

SHIFT + Enter

Moves to the next line in multi line inputbox.

Escape

Deletes the text in the inputbox.