Keyboard & markdown

Ezynota is keyboard-complete. All shortcuts are IME-safe (composition events and keyCode 229 are handled), so typing in CJK languages never triggers false conversions.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Enter	Split block at caret
Shift+Enter	Soft line break
Backspace (at block start)	Merge with previous block
Delete (at block end)	Merge with next block
Tab / Shift+Tab	Table cell navigation (creates rows/cols at the edges)
Escape	Exit browser fullscreen; otherwise close menus
/	Open slash menu
[[	Note-link suggestions (workspace mode)

Modifier shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl/Cmd+B	Bold
Ctrl/Cmd+I	Italic
Ctrl/Cmd+U	Underline
Ctrl/Cmd+K	Insert/edit link
Ctrl/Cmd+D	Duplicate block
Ctrl/Cmd+Z	Undo
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z	Redo
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+L	Toggle list
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+C	Toggle code block
Alt+↑ / Alt+↓	Move block up / down

Markdown typing shortcuts

Conversions trigger as you type and each is a single undoable transaction.

Block shortcuts (on Space)

Type	Result
# … ######	Heading 1–6 (levels configurable, default 1–3)
>	Quote
- or *	Bulleted list
1. or 1)	Ordered list
[] or [x]	Task list item (unchecked / checked)

Inline shortcuts

Type	Result
**bold** or __bold__	Bold
*italic*	Italic
~~strike~~	Strikethrough
`code`	Inline code
==mark==	Highlighted text

On Enter

Type	Result
---, ***, ___	Delimiter block
```	Code block

Markdown interchange

Typing shortcuts are just one direction of Markdown support. Ezynota converts documents to and from Markdown losslessly:

import { blocksToMarkdown, markdownToBlocks } from "ezynota";

const md = blocksToMarkdown(doc.blocks);
const blocks = markdownToBlocks(md);

See Interchange for the full story (HTML, plain text, print).

Clipboard

Copy/cut emit text/plain, text/html, and application/x-ezynota+json (a sanitized document fragment). Pasting follows this priority:

1. Ezynota JSON (copying between Ezynota editors is lossless)
2. Files (routed to image tools — paste screenshots directly)
3. Sanitized HTML (converted to blocks, scripts/styles stripped)
4. Plain text

Dragging text or files onto the editor uses the same pipeline.