Navigation and Outline

The outline panel lists every heading in the current document as a collapsible tree. Click a heading to scroll the editor and preview to that section. As you scroll, the heading you are currently reading is highlighted, so the outline doubles as a position indicator.

Open it from the toggle on the right edge of the editor area. The outline is built from your headings (# H1 through ###### H6), so the better your structure, the more useful the panel.

The outline has two modes. Pick the one that fits how you are reading.

Toggle between the two with the pin button in the outline header. Your choice persists across sessions, so the layout you prefer is the layout you get.

When you are in split view, the editor and the preview scroll together. Scroll one and the other follows.

Slate treats whichever pane you scrolled most recently as the leader and the other as the follower. This avoids feedback loops where the two panes nudge each other back and forth.

To search within the document you are editing, use the find bar in the plain-text view. Open it with ⌘F/CtrlFFind.

Toggle case sensitivity and regular expressions from the find bar. Use Find Next and Find Previous to walk through matches; press Escape to close the bar.

For more on the find and replace controls, see Editing and Formatting.

Sidebar search results know which line a match is on. Click a result and Slate opens the file (if it is not already open), brings the right tab forward, and scrolls the editor to the matching line with the match highlighted briefly so it is easy to spot.

Opening a content match from the command palette goes one step further: in Plain or WYSIWYG it also places the cursor on the matched line and focuses the editor, so you are ready to keep typing.

For details about the search itself, see Search across files.

The command palette is the keyboard-first way to navigate Slate. Open it with ⌘K/CtrlKcommand palette and start typing. The first character of your query picks the mode.

• No prefix. Mixed search across file names and content in every workspace root. Names match first; content matches follow. Capped at 100 results.
• / runs a slash command, like /view rendered or /theme dark.
• # lists every heading in the active document. Pick one to jump there.
• ? opens a built-in cheat sheet.

With /open the palette switches to path-completion mode. Tab autocompletes a segment, a trailing / descends, ⌫ pops up one level, and ~/ expands to your home folder on desktop. For everything the palette can do, see the dedicated Command Palette page.