Crush Keyboard Shortcuts

Press Ctrl+C. Crush binds it straight to quit, with no interrupt step and no confirmation, so it behaves like Codex CLI rather than Claude Code — if you meant to stop the agent rather than leave, press Esc instead. You can also pick Quit from the Ctrl+P command palette. Ctrl+Z suspends Crush to the shell if you want it still running in the background.

Shift+Enter, or Ctrl+J. Crush binds both, and it's thoughtful about the difference: its own help bar shows Ctrl+J by default and swaps the hint to Shift+Enter only when it detects that your terminal can actually report that key. If Shift+Enter seems to send your message, your terminal can't distinguish it — use Ctrl+J.

Because it's bound in both panes, and which one has focus decides what happens. In the input box, Ctrl+J inserts a newline. In the chat pane, Ctrl+J moves down a line (it's an alias for the vim-style j). So the same key writes a line break while you're typing and scrolls while you're reading. Tab moves focus between the two, so if Ctrl+J is scrolling when you wanted a newline, your focus is in the wrong pane. Ctrl+K is the matching scroll-up alias.

Not in the way most terminal agents do. Crush is palette-driven: Ctrl+P opens a command palette that you filter by typing, holding actions like Initialize Project, Switch Model, Summarize Session, and Toggle Yolo Mode. Typing / in the input box opens the commands menu too, and @ mentions a file. So there's no fixed catalog of /commands to memorise — you search the palette instead.

With vim keys, which is unusual for this class of tool. In the chat pane: j and k move a line, d and u go half a page, f and b go a full page, g jumps to the top and Shift+G to the newest message. Shift+↑ and Shift+↓ jump a whole message at a time, Space expands or collapses the selected block, and y copies. For wide output that runs off the edge, Shift+← and Shift+→ scroll sideways. Case matters throughout: lowercase j moves one line, capital J (Shift+J) jumps a whole message, and the same split applies to k / K, h / H, and l / L.

Press Ctrl+R, then the number of the attachment you want gone — Crush shows them in order, so Ctrl+R then 2 drops the second one. Ctrl+R then R removes all of them, and Esc leaves delete mode without removing anything. It's a two-step chord rather than a single key, which is why it isn't obvious from the help bar.

No — they're two separate projects today, though the names have a shared history and people still mix them up. The practical difference for shortcuts is real: opencode is built around a leader key, so many of its actions are Ctrl+X chords, while Crush binds actions directly to Ctrl combinations and puts the rest behind the Ctrl+P palette. Kilo CLI is a fork of opencode and follows opencode's scheme, not Crush's. If you're switching between them, the leader key is the thing to unlearn.

Press Ctrl+L to open the model picker (Ctrl+M is bound to the same thing, though the help bar advertises Ctrl+L). You can change provider partway through a conversation without restarting. Select Reasoning Effort in the Ctrl+P palette is the companion setting, letting you dial how hard the model thinks on models that support it.