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The User Settings workspace tool offers options to customize appearance, behavior, and keyboard shortcuts for your account.

Features

You can customize your Replit App creation experience with these settings categories:

Theme customization: Select between light and dark themes for your workspace
Code intelligence: Configure AI-powered features that enhance your app creation experience
Editor preferences: Adjust how the file editor behaves and appears
Notification controls: Manage alert preferences
Accessibility options: Make Replit work better for users with specific needs
Keyboard shortcuts: Set key combinations to run common actions and navigate the GUI

How to access User Settings

Customize the following settings related to the appearance of your Replit workspace using the following settings:

Theme selection: Choose from light and dark theme presets, community themes, or your custom theme
Custom themes: Create personalized color schemes using the Themes editor

Control the file editor’s appearance and behavior using the following settings:

Font size: Adjust text size for readability
Auto close brackets: Automatically insert closing brackets when you type an opening bracket
Indentation detection: Automatically detect indentation settings when you open a file
Format pasted text indentation: Reformat pasted code to follow proper indentation
Indentation character: Choose between spaces and tabs for indenting code
Indentation size: Set the number of columns for each indentation level
Wrapping: Configure line wrapping behavior
Minimap: Include a navigable code overview in a sidebar
Multiselect modifier key: Set the keyboard modifier for multi-file selection
Filetree Git status: Display Git status indicators in the file tree

Configure AI-powered tools using the following settings:

Semantic tokens: Use enhanced syntax highlighting powered by language servers
AI code completion: Add inline code suggestions as you type
Accept suggestion on commit character: Automatically accept code suggestions by typing certain characters

Customize the Shell and Preview tool behavior:

Shell bell audible indicator: Play sounds when the Shell tool encounters issues
Automatic preview: Open the Preview tab automatically when a server becomes available
Forward opened ports automatically: Configure handling newly detected ports

Manage the following notification settings:

Agent audio notification: Play sounds when Agent requests feedback
Agent push notification: Receive mobile push notifications when Agent requests feedback
Assistant push notification: Receive mobile push notifications when Assistant requests feedback

You can customize the following accessibility setting:

Accessible terminal output: Enable screen reader compatibility for the Shell and Console tools

To access the keyboard shortcut preferences, select the Keyboard shortcuts tab in the User Settings tool.

You can search for key combinations using the following methods:

Name: Type the name or description of the keyboard shortcut in the search field
Key combination: Select the and enter the key combination

Use the following actions to manage shortcuts: