Tessera is keyboard-first. The tables below are the full reference; a condensed legend lives in settings → keyboard & input → shortcuts.
| shortcut | action |
|---|---|
| ⌘N | new host |
| ⌘↩ | connect (in the host editor) |
| ⌘K | quick-switch palette (sessions and agents; prefix @ for agents) |
| ⌘, | settings |
| shortcut | action |
|---|---|
| ⌘⇧K / ⌘⇧J | previous / next session |
| ⌘⇧E | files panel |
| ⌘⇧A | agent center |
| shortcut | action |
|---|---|
| ⌘T | new window |
| ⇧⌘W | close pane / window |
| ⇧⌘[ / ⇧⌘] | previous / next window |
| ⌘1 – ⌘9 | jump to window |
| ⌘D / ⇧⌘D | split side by side / stacked |
| ⌘[ / ⌘] | cycle panes |
| ⇧⌘↩ | zoom pane |
See tmux for details.
⌘F (or the magnifier) opens the scrollback find bar: case-sensitive (Aa), whole-word ([w]), and regex (.*) toggles, a match counter, and ↑ / ↓ or ↩ / ⇧↩ to move between matches. esc closes.
| shortcut | action |
|---|---|
| ⌘F | open find |
| ⌘G / ⇧⌘G | next / previous match |
| ↩ / ⇧↩ | next / previous match |
| esc | close find |
With natural text editing enabled (settings → keyboard & input), the mac-style editing chords work in shells:
| shortcut | action |
|---|---|
| ⌥← / ⌥→ | move by word |
| ⌘← / ⌘→ | line start / end |
| ⌥⌫ | delete word |
| ⌘⌫ | delete to line start |
The on-screen accessory bar sits above the software keyboard and gives you
the keys a glass keyboard lacks. Default chips:
esc ^ ⌥ ⇥ ← ↓ ↑ → | ~.
Under settings → keyboard & input:
/ \ $ { } [ ] < >), with restore defaults to undo,If you work without a hardware keyboard, the experimental swipe pad adds radial macros and dictation under your thumb.