Space Menu & Palette

gori has hundreds of actions, and you do not need to learn their keys up front. Two keys reach all of them:

Both show each action's own key beside it, so every visit teaches you the shortcut, and you need them less the more you use them. ? opens the Help tab, the full key sheet.

Learn it hands-on. gori tutorial (or Ctrl-P → Guided tour from inside a session) has a lesson on each, on a mock UI where nothing you press is real.

The space menu

Press Space in any list or pane. A card opens with the actions for where you are standing: a History row, a flow's detail, the Repeater editor, a rule list. The same key on a different pane gives a different card.

How to read the card:

• The letter on the left runs the row. Press y and the flow is copied; the menu closes.
• The key on the right is the row's shortcut. r Repeater flow ^R means Ctrl-R sends to the Repeater from the list, with no menu at all. A row without one is reached through the menu (or the palette).
• A › row opens a second card instead of running. See Second cards.
• Rows are grouped by purpose: VIEW, SEND, TRIAGE, COPY, and so on. Delete sits under DANGER and a whole-tab wipe under WIPE, always last, and a wipe asks before it acts.

Moving inside the menu

h, j, k and l are never a row's letter, so they always move and a reflex j never runs anything. Any key the card does not list closes it.

Second cards

Some choices are variations of one intent: send this flow to some tool, change how this pane draws. Each of those is a single › row on the menu that opens its own card, so the first card stays short.

Three things make them quick:

• Same letters on every tab. Inside a card, a tool or a toggle keeps its letter wherever the card appears: Space > c sends to the Comparer from History, the Sitemap or a Repeater tab alike.
• >, ⇧Z and ⇧P open their card directly, without Space: > f sends the selected flow to the Fuzzer.
• Display… and Protocol… stay open. After you flip a toggle the card comes back at the same row, so you can flip two or three in one visit, and each row shows its state: ● on, ○ off, or a value such as the TLS preset's name. Esc closes it.

On a tab with a sub-tab strip, focus the strip itself (or the tab bar) and Space lists the sub-tab actions directly, with no T in front. Ctrl-N and Ctrl-W (new and close sub-tab) work from any pane.

Letters you can guess

An action that appears on many tabs has the same letter on all of them, so a letter you learn on one tab works on the next. The ones worth knowing first:

The whole table, with the reasoning behind it, is in Hotkeys → One intent, one letter.

A missed Space is unlikely to surprise you. gori checks at startup that a menu letter does not mean a different action as a bare key in the same pane, apart from a few documented cases, and it keeps c (capture) and i (intercept) off the menu on every tab that does not use those letters itself.

The command palette

Press Ctrl-P on any tab and start typing the name of what you want.

• With nothing typed, the palette lists the app-wide commands: settings, Open browser, Go to a tab, Guided tour, and the like.
• Once you type, it also searches the actions of the pane you opened it from. Those come first under THIS TAB, and app-wide matches follow under APP.
• The right-hand column tells you the short route for next time. shift-i is a key; ␣ > c is a menu path: Space, then >, then c.
• ↑ / ↓ select, ↵ runs, Esc closes. Opened over a flow's detail, it searches the detail's actions, and Esc returns you to it.
• If you have rows marked, the title reads COMMANDS · 3 MARKED: an action you pick will apply to all of them.

Actions only the palette lists

To keep the space menu short, a few kinds of action have no row in it. Some repeat a key you already have, such as Mark word (Ctrl-K); others you need only now and then, such as Minimize request or Go to line. Type the name into Ctrl-P from the tab it belongs to and it appears under THIS TAB. Help names the route for each one: its key, or ^P → <name>.

The full list is in Hotkeys → Actions only the palette lists.

Try it: five minutes

You need a project with a few captured flows. The Quick Start gets you there.

1. Press 3 for History and ↓ to select a flow. Press Space and read the card: find the › rows, and the ^R beside Repeater flow. Press Esc.

   Checkpoint. You can say, without opening the menu, which key sends the selected flow to the Repeater.

2. Press Space, then >. The card title reads SPACE › SEND FLOW TO. Press Esc once, and you are back on the first card; press it again, and the menu closes.

3. Press Space, then Z. The Display… card shows ● or ○ beside each toggle. Press f to flip follow: the card stays open and the dot changes. Press f again to put it back, then Esc.

   Checkpoint. You have used a second card, stepped back out of one, and flipped a toggle without the card closing.

4. Press Ctrl-P and type send. Under THIS TAB, find a row whose right-hand column is a key and one whose column is a menu path. Press Esc.

5. Press Ctrl-P, type tour, and press ↵ to run the guided tour, or Esc if you have already taken it.

   Checkpoint. You can find an action by name, and read off the shorter way to reach it.

When a key does nothing

• Space typed a space. You are editing text (the pane's badge reads INS). Press Esc to go back to READ, then Space.
• A letter from a guide does nothing. Menu letters belong to the pane you are in. Open the menu to see what this pane offers, or search the action's name with Ctrl-P: it may be one of the palette-only actions.
• You rebound a shortcut. A rebind changes the key on the right of a row, never the row's letter. The menu and the palette both show your new key.
• You picked the vim keyset. The keyset changes how you move and select in editors; it leaves every menu letter where it was. See Editor keysets.

Next Steps

• Hotkeys: rebind any shortcut, and the complete letter tables
• Quick Start: capture a request and replay it
• Proxy & History: what the History tab's actions do