---
id: shell/ctrl-shows-every-keyboard-shortcut-in-a-modal
title: "Ctrl+? shows every keyboard shortcut in a modal"
theme: shell
status: open
created: 2026-08-22
date_source: stated
order: 4
---

**Ctrl+? shows every keyboard shortcut in a modal.** Stated 2026-08-22, alongside making the bindings
configurable. One chord, and the whole set is on screen.

It is the same work seen from the other end, and the order matters: **the modal is trivial once a
registry exists and impossible to keep honest before that.** Today the bindings live in nine separate
`keydown` listeners across the app, so a hand-written list of shortcuts would be a second copy of
something nobody updates — a help screen that lies is worse than none. Build it as a render of the
registry from `shell/all-keyboard-shortcuts-configurable`, never as its own list.

Two things to get right when it is built: the modal should show which bindings apply **here** versus
everywhere, since most of the nine are scoped to one app or panel; and it is the natural place to
surface a conflict or a chord the browser refused, because that is when someone is looking.