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Key Combinations |
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F1 |
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Shows the help file and is context sensitive, so you can press it in a dialog and it will bring up the help file section describing that dialog. Remember that if this key is redefined as an alias it will no longer work as a help key. |
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Shift+F1 |
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Displays the Keyword search dialog for the help file. If this is redefined as an alias it will no longer work as a help key. |
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Control+Tab |
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Switches between windows. |
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Shift+Tab |
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Switches between the editbox and the nickname listbox in a channel window. |
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Alt+Enter |
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In a multi-line editbox this moves the cursor to the next line allowing you to enter in several separate lines. |
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Control+F |
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In status/channel/query/etc. windows, this opens up a text search dialog allowing to you search the text buffer of that window for matching text. |
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Control+N |
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Cycles through channel windows. |
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Control+Q |
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Cycles through query windows. |
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Control+L |
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Scrolls back text in a window to the Line Marker. |
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Tab |
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If an editbox is empty and you press the Tab key, mIRC inserts a "/msg nickname" into the editbox of the window you are currently on, where nickname is the last person that sent you a message. |
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You can use Control+D to remove a nickname from the Tab Key nickname list of users who have recently messaged you. |
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Note: The editbox needs to be empty in order for the Tab key to work as described above since the Tab key also performs the functions below... |
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If you are in a channel window editbox and it contains some text, the Tab key performs nickname completion on the word the cursor is on, this allows you type in only the first character or two of a nickname on that channel and then press Tab and mIRC will expand it to the full nickname. |
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If you press the Tab key while the cursor is positioned over a %variable or $identifier, it is evaluated. |
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The Tab completion also works for a nickname in a query window, the nicknames in your notify list when in the status window, and for channel names in your favorites folder when in any window. |
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You can also use wildcard *? characters in nickname tab completion. |
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Cursor Up/Down |
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Browses the command line history buffer for a single-line editbox. |
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Control+Cursor Up/Down |
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Browses the command line history buffer for a multi-line editbox. |
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Page Up/Down |
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Browses the scrollback buffer of a window a page at a time. |
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Control+Page Up/Down |
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Browses the scrollback buffer of a window a line at a time. |
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ESCape |
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Quickly minimizes the active window, it must be turned on in the Other dialog. |
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Shift+Copy |
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If you want to copy text with line-breaks as it appears in a window, you can hold down the Shift key while you do the copy. |
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Control+Copy |
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If you want to copy text with control codes, you can hold down the Control key while you do the copy. |
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Control+Enter |
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If you want to send information beginning with the / command prefix and you want it to be sent as normal text instead of interpreted as a command, just hold down the Control key when you press enter. |
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Control+B/U/R/K |
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Inserts control codes for bold, underline, reverse and color in text. |
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Alt+1...9 |
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If you press Alt and a number, mIRC will display the Nth window listed in your Window menu. If you press Alt+0 (zero) and you are in an mIRC desktop window, it will jump to the main mIRC window. |
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Shift+Right-Click |
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You can roll/unroll a window by holding the shift-key and clicking your right mouse button on the window titlebar. |
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Control+Connect |
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You can hold down the Control key while clicking the Connect toolbar button to make mIRC use the next server in the list. |
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Shift+Connect |
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You can hold down the Shift key while clicking the Connect toolbar button to make mIRC connect to the current server using the same port instead of a randomly selected port. |
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Control+Minimize |
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This minimizes mIRC and asks you for a Lock password.. |
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Shift+Minimize |
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This minimizes mIRC in a way opposite to that selected in the Tray dialog. |
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Alt+Q |
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Shows or hides the second editbox in a channel window. |
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Alt+X |
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Toggles the maximized state of the active window. |
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Alt+LeftClick |
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You can use this on a Status Window switchbar button to show/hide all buttons associated with the status window. |
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New windows will always have their buttons displayed even if the hide option is on. |
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You can also use Alt+F1 to show/hide buttons. |
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Shift+DoubleClick |
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You can use this on a line in the Channels List window to join the channel minimized. |