GitHub Help

Typing ? in GitHub Enterprise brings up a dialog box that lists the keyboard shortcuts available for that page. You can use these keyboard shortcuts to perform actions across the site without using your mouse to navigate.

Below is a list of some of the available keyboard shortcuts.

Site wide shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcut	Description
s	Focus the search bar
g + n	Go to your notifications

Repositories

Keyboard Shortcut	Description
g + c	Go to your repository
g + i	Go to your issues
g + p	Go to your pull requests
g + w	Go to your wiki

Source code browsing

Keyboard Shortcut	Description
t	Activates the file finder
l	Jump to a line in your code
w	Switch to a new branch or tag
y	Expand a URL to its canonical form
i	Show or hide comments on diffs

Comments

Keyboard Shortcut	Description
command/control + b	Inserts Markdown formatting for bolding text
command/control + i	Inserts Markdown formatting for italicizing text
command/control + k	Inserts Markdown formatting for creating a link

Issues

Keyboard Shortcut	Description
c	Create an issue
/	Focus the issues search bar
l	Filter by or edit labels
m	Filter by or edit milestones
a	Filter by or edit assignee
r	Quote the selected text in your reply

Notifications

Keyboard Shortcut	Description
e I y	Mark as read
shift m	Mute thread

Pull request list

Keyboard Shortcut	Description
r	Quote the selected text in your reply
o + enter	Open issue

Network Graph

Keyboard Shortcut	Description
← or h	Scroll left
→ or l	Scroll right
↑ or k	Scroll up
↓ or j	Scroll down
shift ← or shift h	Scroll all the way left
shift → or shift l	Scroll all the way right
shift ↑ or shift k	Scroll all the way up
shift ↓ or shift j	Scroll all the way down