# Using shortcut keys
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While getting inline suggestions from Amazon Q, you can use keyboard shortcuts for common actions you take, such as initiating Amazon Q or accepting a recommendation.

Choose the integrated development environment (IDE) where you are developing code to see keyboard shortcuts for your IDE. 

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#### [ Visual Studio Code ]


| Action | Keyboard shortcut | 
| --- | --- | 
| Manually initiate Amazon Q | MacOS: Option \+ C<br />Windows: Alt \+ C | 
| Accept a recommendation | Tab | 
| Next recommendation | Right arrow | 
| Previous recommendation | Left arrow | 
| Reject a recommendation | ESC, backspace, or keep typing and the recommendation will disappear as soon as there is a character mismatch. | 
| Accept next word | Cmd \+ right arrow | 

To change keybindings in VS Code, see [Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings) on the VS Code website.

**Note**  
The inline suggestions toolbar in VS Code is disabled by default. For more information, see [Redesigned inline suggestions toolbar](https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_75#_redesigned-inline-suggestions-toolbar) on the VS Code website.

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#### [ JetBrains ]


| Action | Keyboard shortcut | 
| --- | --- | 
| Manually initiate Amazon Q | MacOS: Option \+ C<br />Windows: Alt \+ C | 
| Accept a recommendation | Tab | 
| Next recommendation | Right arrow | 
| Previous recommendation | Left arrow | 
| Reject a recommendation | ESC, backspace, or keep typing and the recommendation will disappear as soon as there is a character mismatch. | 

To change keybindings in IntelliJ, see [IntelliJ IDEA keyboard shortcuts](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/mastering-keyboard-shortcuts.html) on the JetBrains website.

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#### [ Eclipse ]


| Action | Keyboard shortcut | 
| --- | --- | 
| Manually initiate Amazon Q | MacOS: Option \+ C<br />Windows: Alt \+ C | 
| Accept a recommendation | Tab | 
| Next recommendation | MacOS: Option \+ ]<br />Windows: Alt \+ ] | 
| Previous recommendation | MacOS: Option \+ [<br />Windows: Alt \+ [ | 
| Reject a recommendation | ESC, backspace, or keep typing and the recommendation will disappear as soon as there is a character mismatch. | 

To change keybindings in Eclipse, see [Changing the key bindings ](https://help.eclipse.org/latest/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Ftkeybindings.htm) in the Eclipse documentation.

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#### [ Toolkit for Visual Studio ]


| Action | Keyboard shortcut | 
| --- | --- | 
| Manually initiate Amazon Q<br />`AWSToolkit.CodeWhisperer.GetSuggestion` in the keybindings | Windows: Alt \+ C | 
| Accept a recommendation | Tab | 
| Next recommendation<br />`Edit.NextSuggestion` in the keybindings | Windows: Alt \+ . | 
| Previous recommendation<br />`Edit.PreviousSuggestion` in the keybindings | Windows: Alt \+ , | 
| Reject a recommendation | ESC, backspace, or keep typing and the recommendation will disappear as soon as there is a character mismatch. | 

See also Microsoft's [Visual Studio default keyboard shortcuts](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/keyboard-shortcuts.pdf).

To change keybindings in Visual Studio, use Tools -> Options -> Keyboard.

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#### [ Amazon SageMaker AI ]


| Action | Keyboard shortcut | 
| --- | --- | 
| Manually initiate Amazon Q | MacOS: Option \+ C<br />Windows: Alt \+ C | 
| Accept a recommendation | Tab | 
| Next recommendation | Down arrow | 
| Previous recommendation | Up arrow | 
| Reject a recommendation | ESC | 

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#### [ JupyterLab ]


| Action | Keyboard shortcut | 
| --- | --- | 
| Manually initiate Amazon Q | MacOS: Option \+ C<br />Windows: Alt \+ C | 
| Accept a recommendation | Tab | 
| Next recommendation | Down arrow | 
| Previous recommendation | Up arrow | 
| Reject a recommendation | ESC | 

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#### [ AWS Glue Studio Notebook ]


| Action | Keyboard shortcut | 
| --- | --- | 
| Manually initiate Amazon Q | MacOS: Option \+ C<br />Windows: Alt \+ C | 
| Accept a recommendation | Tab | 
| Next recommendation | Down arrow | 
| Previous recommendation | Up arrow | 
| Reject a recommendation | ESC | 

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#### [ AWS Lambda ]


| Action | Keyboard shortcut | 
| --- | --- | 
| Manually fetch a code suggestion | MacOS: Option \+ C<br />Windows: Alt \+ C | 
| Accept a suggestion | Tab | 
| Reject a suggestion | ESC, Backspace, scroll in any direction, or keep typing and the recommendation automatically disappears. | 

To change the key bindings, use the following procedure.

1. While viewing a particular function, choose the gear icon to open the **Preferences** tab.

1. On the **Preferences** tab, select **Keybindings**.

1. In the keybindings search box, enter Amazon Q.

![Keybindings settings panel with Amazon CodeWhisperer highlighted in the table.](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/images/CWSPR-Lambda-keybinding-settings.png)


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#### [ AWS Cloud9 ]


| Action | Keyboard shortcut | 
| --- | --- | 
| Manually fetch a code suggestion | MacOS: Option \+ C<br />Windows: Alt \+ C | 
| Accept a suggestion | Tab | 
| Reject a suggestion | ESC, Backspace, scroll in any direction, or keep typing and the recommendation automatically disappears. | 

1. While viewing a particular environment, choose the gear icon to open the **Preferences** tab.

1. On the **Preferences** tab, select **Keybindings**.

1. In the keybindings search box, enter Amazon Q.

1. In the Keystroke column, double-click the space corresponding to the function you're interested in.

1. Enter the keys that you want to bind the function to.

![Keybindings section selected in User Settings with keyboard mode dropdown highlighted.](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/images/CWSPR-C9-keybinding-settings.png)


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