Yazelix Nova Keybindings

Nova extends the Helix and Vim h/j/k/l model across the workspace.

Movement grid

Layer	h	j	k	l
Alt	Focus left or previous tab	Focus down	Focus up	Focus right or next tab
Ctrl Alt	Move tab left	Move pane down circularly	Move pane up circularly	Move tab right
Alt Shift	Sidebar	Git popup	Config popup	Agent popup

Workspace keys

Key	Action
Alt Shift M	Toggle the command menu
Alt Shift A	Show a random visual with Anima
Alt Shift H	Toggle the configured sidebar; Radar is the default
Alt Shift Y	Toggle the full managed Yazi popup
Ctrl y	Toggle focus between Forest and managed Helix
Alt Shift T	Open a new workspace tab
Alt Shift W	Close the active workspace tab
Ctrl Alt t	Toggle Zellij tab mode
Alt Shift F	Toggle the focused pane fullscreen
Alt 1-9	Go to tab 1-9
Alt m	Open a new pane
Alt j / Alt k	Focus the next / previous work pane, wrapping within the stack
Ctrl q	Quit the Nova session
Ctrl Alt o	Open Zellij session mode; press w for the session manager
Alt r	Reveal from the editor or return from Yazi
Alt z	Retarget the tab workspace from Yazi with zoxide

Press a popup key again to hide or close that surface and return to the tiled workspace.

Every new tab starts with a focused quick zoxide search. Enter opens the selected directory; Tab switches to full Yazi. Tab in startup Yazi returns to quick search at the directory you reached.

Customize keys

Open yzx config to edit the managed config, agent, Git, menu, screen, sidebar, and sidebar-focus chords. The corresponding keybindings.* fields live in ~/.config/yazelix/config.toml and accept a key chord or false. Changes apply to new sessions.

The fixed Alt Shift Y, application-local Alt r, and Yazi Alt z bindings remain in their native packaged owners. Nova rejects collisions among managed semantic keys.

Ratconfig’s Keys tab is the complete packaged reference. The runtime sources are defaults/zellij/config.kdl, the managed Helix config, and the managed Yazi keymap.