Keyboard shortcut for Jump to Previous View Location Navigate back forward in IntelliJ IDEA

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I know Ctrl Shift Backspace is used to go to the location of the last edit   But I want to jump to whichever location I was most recently at  not necessarily one where I edited anything   For example  if I jumped to a declaration using Ctrl B  then I want to go back to where I was before jumping

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Using the following ways using only two keys will be the easier   control   Tab  or   Alt   Left Right

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Q  amp  A is built into Intellij       CTRL CMD   SHIFT   A x 2  TYPE caret

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Mostly the default shortcut key combination is Ctrl   Alt   Left Right   I m using the linux version    Or you can have a toolbar option for it  Enable the tool bar by View -  Toolbar  The Left and Right Arrows will do the same  If you hover over it then you can see the shortcut key combination also      Just in case the key combination is not working  this can be due to several reasons like you are using a virtual machine  etc  you can change this default key combination  or you can add an extra combination  ex  For Back Move to previous Ctrl   Alt    lt  or Comma    Go to Settings -  select keymap  type keymap in the search bar  -    Editor Actions -  search for back and find Navigate options -  change the settings as you prefer

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The underlying problem is Ctrl Alt Left and Right are used by window managers to switch workspace and or OEM utilities to change the screen orientation   You can change the assignments using  File   Settings   Keymap then Main Menu   Navigate find  Back and Forward and right click to Add Keyboard Shortcut to set an alternative key chord   Alt Graph Left and Alt Graph Right works well for me  IDEA 13 1 4 on Ubuntu under IceWM

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Press Ctrl   Alt   S then choose Keymap and finally find the keyboard shortcut by type back word in search bar at the top right corner

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Alt   Shift       Left Arrow   or  Ctrl   E  Recent Files pop-up    Also check   Ctrl   Shift   E  the Recently Edited Files pop-up    Mac users  replace Ctrl with    command  and Alt with    option    Update In v12 0 it s Alt   Shift     Left Arrow  instead of Alt   Ctrl       Left Arrow      Update 2 In v14 1  and possibly earlier  it s Ctrl      Update 3 In IntelliJ IDEA 2016 3 it s Ctrl   Alt       Left Arrow   Update 4 In IntelliJ IDEA 2018 3 it s Alt   Shift       Left Arrow   Update 5 In IntelliJ IDEA 2019 3 it s Ctrl   Alt       Left Arrow

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In IntellJ 2017 2   Ctrl   and Ctrl   navigate between previous locations in the current file   Ctrl Alt  larr  and Ctrl Alt  rarr  navigate between previous locations in all files

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Many excellent answers so far  and they do answer the question   But  if you don t want to have to deal with disabling graphics driver s settings  or creating new keyboard mappings  or are developing through a remote session  RDP  or within a VM that intercepts your keystrokes  good-old keyboard navigation still works  Just do Alt-N to bring up the Navigate menu and then hit the B key    Please note that you don t hit all keys at the same time  So   Alt-N wait B   This is what I use all the time  for exactly the case that the OP asked about  Also  this will probably hold through any IntelliJ updates

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Depends on the Keymap selected   Keymap  Mac OS X     Left Right Arrow Keys Keymap  Mac OS X 10 5              I was facing similar problems in Pycharm  To resolve change your Keymap in Preferences

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Intellij 2021 3 2 Basic Shortcuts Shortcuts Image

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For Mac users Use Command   for backward and Command   for forward

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If you are on a mac keyboard using with UNIX OS   control   alt   command   left or right should work for sure

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For version 14  On mac  it is   alt

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Navigate back forward  Ctrl   Alt   Left Right

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You can use the below to navigate back in 2017 3 4  Alt   Left

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For Ubuntu  Ctrl   Alt   Left and Ctrl   Alt   Right work fine   By default these keys are assigned for Ubuntu s workspace navigation    You need to disable that by going to     System Settings  gt  Keyboard  gt  Shortcuts Tab  gt  Navigation and disable Switch to workspace left and Switch to workspace right by pressing Backspace   Or you can choose to change shortcuts in Intellij itself   File  gt  Settings  gt  Keymap  gt  Main menu  gt  Navigate  gt  Back Forward

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CMD      - gt  Go Previous CMD     - gt  Go Next            For OSX  cmd     and   are the best choices to go back  amp  forth  Since they are found so near to fingers  avoiding you wrist twisting a bit  one keypress lesser  ideal for users in vim mode  As the OP requested  this works well with cmd   B which facilitates jumping inside to the method variable definition and comes back immediately using cmd      Give a try

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Like  itsneo said  I personally find       and   the most convenient ones on a mac  But I can understand if you come from Linux side of things  Then you can use     alt     or

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OSX and Android Studio version   CMD    and CMD     to move to the previous carret location

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With version 2018 1 the keyboard short cuts for navigation are Shift Alt Left or Right

[intellij-idea] Keyboard shortcut for Jump to Previous View Location (Navigate back/forward) in IntelliJ IDEA

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