oterm/docs/commands.md

Commands

By pressing ^ Ctrl+p you can access the command palette from where you can perform most of the chat actions. The following commands are available:

• New chat - create a new chat session
• Edit chat parameters - edit the current chat session (change system prompt, parameters or format)
• Rename chat - rename the current chat session
• Export chat - export the current chat session as markdown
• Delete chat - delete the current chat session
• Clear chat - clear the chat history, preserving model and system prompt customizations
• Regenerate last Ollama message - regenerates the last message from Ollama (will override the seed for the specific message with a random one.) Useful if you want to change the system prompt or parameters or just want to try again.
• Pull model - pull a model or update an existing one.
• Change theme - choose among the available themes.

Keyboard shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts are supported:

• ^ Ctrl+q - quit

• ^ Ctrl+l - switch to multiline input mode

• ^ Ctrl+i - select an image to include with the next message

• ↑ - navigate through history of previous prompts

• ^ Ctrl+n - open a new chat

• ^ Ctrl+Backspace - close the current chat

• ^ Ctrl+Tab - open the next chat

• ^ Ctrl+Shift+Tab - open the previous chat

In multiline mode, you can press Enter to send the message, or Shift+Enter to add a new line at the cursor.

While Ollama is inferring the next message, you can press Esc to cancel the inference.

!!! note Some of the shortcuts may not work in a certain context, if they are overriden by the widget in focus. For example pressing ↑ while the prompt is in multi-line mode.

If the key bindings clash with your terminal, it is possible to change them by editing the configuration file. See [Configuration](/oterm/app_config).

Copy / Paste

It is difficult to properly support copy/paste in terminal applications. You can copy blocks to your clipboard as such:

• clicking a message will copy it to the clipboard.
• clicking a code block will only copy the code block to the clipboard.

For most terminals there exists a key modifier you can use to click and drag to manually select text. For example:

• iTerm Option key.
• Gnome Terminal Shift key.
• Windows Terminal Shift key.

The image selection interface.