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Appearance & shortcuts
Themes, text sizes, large-file handling and keyboard shortcuts.
Open Settings from the bottom of the left rail. It has four categories: Appearance, Editor, Intelligence and System. This page covers the first two. Intelligence is covered in Automatic model selection and Smart tools & web search, and System in Installation and Troubleshooting.
Appearance
Theme
Under Appearance, use the Theme menu to choose Dark or Light. The theme applies everywhere: the interface, the editor, the terminal, diffs and syntax colors.
Text sizes
Text sizes has three independent controls, and each updates immediately:
| Control | Applies to |
|---|---|
| Editor text | Code editors and diff editors. |
| Chat text | Messages, Markdown, activity and the composer. |
| Interface text | The sidebar, tabs, toolbars, panels and dialogs. |
A live preview underneath shows the effect.
Editor
Large file handling
Very large files can make an editor slow. Under Large file handling, the Large-file threshold sets the size above which a file opens read-only, with the language server disabled, instead of the normal editable path. The threshold is in megabytes: it defaults to 5 MB and can be set from 1 MB to 50 MB. Reset restores the default.
Binary files always get an unsupported-file preview instead, whatever their size.
Keyboard shortcuts
Settings → Editor → Keyboard shortcuts shows the shortcuts Rusty uses. The defaults are:
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Close active tab | ⌘ W |
| Open search | ⌘ K |
| Toggle explorer | ⌘ 1 |
Other shortcuts you will use:
| Where | Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Editor | ⌘ Enter | Open Inline Chat on the current selection or line. |
| Inline Chat | Enter | Send. |
| Inline Chat | Shift Enter | New line. |
| Inline Chat | Esc | Close. |
| Source Control | ⌘ Enter | Commit, from the commit message box. |
The search palette opened with ⌘ K searches the workspace.