Keyboard Shortcuts Settings
Despite the name, this App Settings section is not where NEXUS's built-in shortcuts are listed — for those, see the Keyboard Shortcuts reference. What actually lives here is terminal-specific: the terminal's font size, how the Option key behaves, and an editor for your own custom shortcuts that type a command into the active terminal.
Controls
| Label | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Font size | The terminal's font size. | 13 pt |
| Option (⌥) key | How the Option key behaves in the terminal: type characters (e.g. #, ~), act as a Meta key (Esc + key), or split so left Option types characters and right Option is Meta. | Type characters |
| Command Shortcuts | Your custom shortcuts — each has a name, a key combination, and the command it types into the active terminal, plus its own on/off toggle. | Two disabled examples ship by default: "Git Status" (⌃⇧S) and "List Files" (⌃⇧L) |
| Add… | Opens a form to create a new custom shortcut: name, command, key, and modifier keys. | Ctrl+Shift held by default |
| Open Config | Opens the underlying shortcuts file. | — |
| Reset | Restores the two built-in examples. Shown only once at least one shortcut exists. | — |
Notes
Font size is read-only in this release — it tells you what the terminal is using, but there's no control here to change it.
Option key matters most if you type on a layout where a punctuation character sits behind Option — the Split choice lets you keep that character on the left key while still using the right key as Meta for terminal-native Option-as-Meta behavior, rather than forcing one behavior for the whole keyboard.
Command Shortcuts are yours to define: each one is a name, a trigger key combination, and a literal command NEXUS types into whatever terminal is currently active when you press it — it's a typing shortcut, not a NEXUS action binding. The two examples NEXUS ships ("Git Status" and "List Files") start out disabled, so nothing fires until you turn one on or add your own with Add…. Open Config hands you the underlying file directly if you'd rather edit several at once than use the form. Reset discards every custom shortcut you've added and restores just the two examples — it only appears once there's something to reset.
Where to go next
- Settings reference — the control-by-control contract for this section.
- Keyboard Shortcuts reference — NEXUS's built-in shortcuts, which this section does not list.