Keyboard Shortcuts

The following shortcuts are the default setting (no, you can't change them yet (without hacking the source)).

A	Add / Draw nodes
Shift-A	Cycle through the different Auto zoom modes
D	Delete nodes or ways. Pressing Ctrl forces delete, even if the object is in use.
N	Add a new node or insert a new node into a way
S	Select objects
Shift-Click	Holding the "Shift" key when in "select" mode adds new element to existing selection.
Alt-Shift-Click	Holding the "Alt" and "Shift" key when in "select" mode adds new node to current selection.
Z	Zoom in by dragging
Alt-A	Toggle display on / off of Authors dialog
Alt-C	Toggle display on / off of Conflict dialog
Alt-E	Toggle display on / off of Selection list dialog
Alt-H	Toggle display on / off of Display history dialog (history is not fully implemented yet)
Alt-L	Toggle display on / off of Layers dialog
Alt-R	Toggle display on / off of Relations dialog
Alt-O	Toggle display on / off of Command stack (the undo buffer)dialog
Alt-P	Toggle display on / off of Property for selected objects dialog
Alt-V	Toggle display on / off of validation dialog (requires plugin)
Ctrl-A	Select all
Ctrl-Shift-A	Unselect all
Ctrl-Shift-R	Reverse ways
Ctrl-Shift-P	Split ways
Ctrl-Shift-D	Download
Ctrl-Shift-Alt-D	Download incomplete ways
Ctrl-Shift-U	Upload
Ctrl-Shift-O	Align nodes in circle
Ctrl-Shift-L	Align nodes into a straight line
Ctrl-Right	Pan display window
Ctrl-Left	Pan display window
Ctrl-Up	Pan display window
Ctrl-Down	Pan display window
Ctrl-,	Zoom in
Ctrl-.	Zoom out
Ctrl-Z	Undo
Ctrl-Shift-Z	Redo
Ctrl-N	New file
Ctrl-O	Open file
Ctrl-S	Save file
Ctrl-Shift-S	Save as
Ctrl-E	Export to GPX
Ctrl-F	Search
Ctrl-Q	Exit Application
F1	Help
Shift-F1	About screen (with JOSM version number)
Ctrl-F1	Popup tooltip of current selected action
F12	Preferences
Space	Activate the last used action again.
1	Zoom to data
2	Zoom to selection
3	Zoom to layer
4	Zoom to conflict