What are the most useful Intellij IDEA keyboard shortcuts

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I did a bit of googling hoping to find a post on IDEA shortcuts similar to Jeff s post on Visual Studio shortcuts  Visual Studio  NET 2003 and 2005 Keyboard Shortcuts   but didn t really spot anything that helped   Hopefully the answers to this question will fill the void

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Within the tool     Help -  Default Keymap Reference   as suggested by krosenvold   On the Internet    IntelliJ IDEA Developers Documentation   Windows  Linux and Mac keyboard shortcut reference cards for versions 8  7  6  5  and 4 5    I knew I had seen and used these reference  cards  before    -   One of my favorites  not shown on the JetBrains cards  is  Ctrl Shift  Up or Down Arrow   to move lines methods up and down in the source code   See also  Intellij Idea Keyboard Shortcuts  page on Ward s Wiki

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By far my favourite all purpose shortcut is Ctrl Shift A  It does a search as you type through all the commands in intellij  Not only that but when you find the command you want it also displays the corresponding shortcut key next to it

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Ctrl   N   Open class   Alt   F7   Find usages

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Ctrl   F11 invokes a dialog with all alphanumeric keys on the keyboard  Selecting one empty will add the current line to bookmarks and mark the line with selected key   Shift   F11 invokes a list of bookmarks  Pressing a key takes to associated bookmark

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This link has everything you need   Plus in Idea 8 atleast  every shortcut is completely customizable  so it s really up to you what the most useful ones are   Idea 8 reference PDF

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http   www jetbrains com idea docs ReferenceCard70 mac pdf has everything you need  after a while  you ll develop your own preference for certain shortcuts

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Shift Delete deletes the entire line  will  cut  it to clipboard   Ctrl Alt L to reformat and optimize imports    Ctrl Shift J to join lines  pull content of next line up to current line

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These are some of my most used keyboard short cuts  Syntax aware selection in the editor selects a word at the caret and then selects expanding areas of the source code  For example  it may select a method name  then the expression that calls this method  then the whole statement  then the containing block  etc   Ctrl W  Basic Code Completion  to complete methods  keywords etc   Ctrl Space  Go to Declaration  Use this to navigate to the declaration of a class  method or variable used somewhere in the code  Ctrl B  Introduce Variable Refactoring  to create a variable from an expression  This expression may even be incomplete or contain errors  Since version 8  IDEA intelligently selects a likely expression when no text is selected  Ctrl Alt V  Go to Class  to quickly open any class in the editor  Ctrl N  To open any file  not just classes  Ctrl Shift N  Comment Uncomment current line or selection  Ctrl   and Ctrl Shift    Quick JavaDoc Popup to show the JavaDoc of the method or class at the text cursor  Ctrl Q  Ctrl J on Mac OS X   Smart Type Completion to complete an expression with a method call or variable with a type suitable in the current Context  Ctrl Shift Space  Rename refactoring to rename any identifier  Can look in comments  text files and across different languages too  Shift F6  Select in Popup to quickly select the currently edited element  class  file  method or field  in any view  Project View  Structure View or other    Alt F1  Highlight Usages in File  Position the text cursor on any identifier without selecting any text and it will show all places in the file where that variable  method etc  is used  Use it on a throws  try or catch keyword to show all places where the exception is thrown  Use it on the implements keyword to highlight the methods of the implemented interface  Ctrl Shift F7

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Help Productivity Guide  It tells you what are the shortcuts you use don t use and displays usage statistics  It will guide you to the unknown features

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This is probably dependent on your development environment  but when doing BlackBerry development I code in IntelliJ and still compile and debug through the BlackBerry JDE  Ctrl   Shift   C is vital in this case as it allows you to copy the full path of the file you are currently editing  making it easy to open the file in the separate dev environment

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Help Productivity Guide  It tells you what are the shortcuts you use don t use and displays usage statistics  It will guide you to the unknown features

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By far my favourite all purpose shortcut is Ctrl Shift A  It does a search as you type through all the commands in intellij  Not only that but when you find the command you want it also displays the corresponding shortcut key next to it

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Some of the time savers    Alt   Enter   show intention actions  like Eclipse quick fix  Ctrl   Alt   V   introduce variable  never type the left hand side of an assignment again  Ctrl   Shift   Space   smart completion   even two levels down since IntelliJ 8   Ctrl   W   select succesively increasing code blocks  Kind of obvious but a real time saver    The Canoo blog contains some   8  articles on some more advanced IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts   The Key Promoter and Shortcut keys list plugins are really helpful for  constantly  learning new IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts

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Ctrl   Shift   Enter - automatically completes the code statement you are typing  inserting the quotation marks  brackets  curly braces and other punctuation as necessary

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F7 F8 F9   for debugging

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F7 F8 F9   for debugging

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By far my favourite all purpose shortcut is Ctrl Shift A  It does a search as you type through all the commands in intellij  Not only that but when you find the command you want it also displays the corresponding shortcut key next to it

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This is probably dependent on your development environment  but when doing BlackBerry development I code in IntelliJ and still compile and debug through the BlackBerry JDE  Ctrl   Shift   C is vital in this case as it allows you to copy the full path of the file you are currently editing  making it easy to open the file in the separate dev environment

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http   www jetbrains com idea docs ReferenceCard70 mac pdf has everything you need  after a while  you ll develop your own preference for certain shortcuts

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http   www jetbrains com idea docs ReferenceCard70 mac pdf has everything you need  after a while  you ll develop your own preference for certain shortcuts

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These are some of my most used keyboard short cuts  Syntax aware selection in the editor selects a word at the caret and then selects expanding areas of the source code  For example  it may select a method name  then the expression that calls this method  then the whole statement  then the containing block  etc   Ctrl W  Basic Code Completion  to complete methods  keywords etc   Ctrl Space  Go to Declaration  Use this to navigate to the declaration of a class  method or variable used somewhere in the code  Ctrl B  Introduce Variable Refactoring  to create a variable from an expression  This expression may even be incomplete or contain errors  Since version 8  IDEA intelligently selects a likely expression when no text is selected  Ctrl Alt V  Go to Class  to quickly open any class in the editor  Ctrl N  To open any file  not just classes  Ctrl Shift N  Comment Uncomment current line or selection  Ctrl   and Ctrl Shift    Quick JavaDoc Popup to show the JavaDoc of the method or class at the text cursor  Ctrl Q  Ctrl J on Mac OS X   Smart Type Completion to complete an expression with a method call or variable with a type suitable in the current Context  Ctrl Shift Space  Rename refactoring to rename any identifier  Can look in comments  text files and across different languages too  Shift F6  Select in Popup to quickly select the currently edited element  class  file  method or field  in any view  Project View  Structure View or other    Alt F1  Highlight Usages in File  Position the text cursor on any identifier without selecting any text and it will show all places in the file where that variable  method etc  is used  Use it on a throws  try or catch keyword to show all places where the exception is thrown  Use it on the implements keyword to highlight the methods of the implemented interface  Ctrl Shift F7

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Any combination of Ctrl   Alt   Shift and N   Ctrl   Shift   T in idea8 is also excellent   There is a complete keymap in the online help too

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Some of the time savers    Alt   Enter   show intention actions  like Eclipse quick fix  Ctrl   Alt   V   introduce variable  never type the left hand side of an assignment again  Ctrl   Shift   Space   smart completion   even two levels down since IntelliJ 8   Ctrl   W   select succesively increasing code blocks  Kind of obvious but a real time saver    The Canoo blog contains some   8  articles on some more advanced IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts   The Key Promoter and Shortcut keys list plugins are really helpful for  constantly  learning new IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts

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Yes  Ctrl   Shift   A is the most useful one  It s a meta shortcut

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If you are coming from Eclipse  http   tanu wordpress com 2010 09 24 moving-from-eclipse-to-intellij-idea   General documentation and shortcuts are on Intellij s site http   www jetbrains com idea documentation index jsp

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By far my favourite all purpose shortcut is Ctrl Shift A  It does a search as you type through all the commands in intellij  Not only that but when you find the command you want it also displays the corresponding shortcut key next to it

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These are some of my most used keyboard short cuts  Syntax aware selection in the editor selects a word at the caret and then selects expanding areas of the source code  For example  it may select a method name  then the expression that calls this method  then the whole statement  then the containing block  etc   Ctrl W  Basic Code Completion  to complete methods  keywords etc   Ctrl Space  Go to Declaration  Use this to navigate to the declaration of a class  method or variable used somewhere in the code  Ctrl B  Introduce Variable Refactoring  to create a variable from an expression  This expression may even be incomplete or contain errors  Since version 8  IDEA intelligently selects a likely expression when no text is selected  Ctrl Alt V  Go to Class  to quickly open any class in the editor  Ctrl N  To open any file  not just classes  Ctrl Shift N  Comment Uncomment current line or selection  Ctrl   and Ctrl Shift    Quick JavaDoc Popup to show the JavaDoc of the method or class at the text cursor  Ctrl Q  Ctrl J on Mac OS X   Smart Type Completion to complete an expression with a method call or variable with a type suitable in the current Context  Ctrl Shift Space  Rename refactoring to rename any identifier  Can look in comments  text files and across different languages too  Shift F6  Select in Popup to quickly select the currently edited element  class  file  method or field  in any view  Project View  Structure View or other    Alt F1  Highlight Usages in File  Position the text cursor on any identifier without selecting any text and it will show all places in the file where that variable  method etc  is used  Use it on a throws  try or catch keyword to show all places where the exception is thrown  Use it on the implements keyword to highlight the methods of the implemented interface  Ctrl Shift F7

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Within the tool     Help -  Default Keymap Reference   as suggested by krosenvold   On the Internet    IntelliJ IDEA Developers Documentation   Windows  Linux and Mac keyboard shortcut reference cards for versions 8  7  6  5  and 4 5    I knew I had seen and used these reference  cards  before    -   One of my favorites  not shown on the JetBrains cards  is  Ctrl Shift  Up or Down Arrow   to move lines methods up and down in the source code   See also  Intellij Idea Keyboard Shortcuts  page on Ward s Wiki

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If you are coming from Eclipse  http   tanu wordpress com 2010 09 24 moving-from-eclipse-to-intellij-idea   General documentation and shortcuts are on Intellij s site http   www jetbrains com idea documentation index jsp

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Alt   Shift   Insert - switches to column selection mode  allowing the selection of rectangular text fragments  columns   Ctrl   Shift   Backspace - go to most recent code edit  Hit again to go even further back  Very useful when coding something  browsing other classes for a while and then wanting to go back where we left our code   Ctrl E - recently opened files  Ctrl Shift E - recently edited files  Ctrl Shift V - paste one of the previous values from clipboard

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Help Productivity Guide  It tells you what are the shortcuts you use don t use and displays usage statistics  It will guide you to the unknown features

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Any combination of Ctrl   Alt   Shift and N   Ctrl   Shift   T in idea8 is also excellent   There is a complete keymap in the online help too

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One of my real favorites may not count as a keyboard shortcut exactly  But the  iter  smart template is really great   basically if you want to iterate though something using a for loop type  iter  then tab to use the live template  itertab  it will figure out the most likely variable you want to iterate over and generate a for loop for it  I m pretty sure it uses the nearest reference to an object which supports iteration

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F7 F8 F9   for debugging

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These are some of my most used keyboard short cuts  Syntax aware selection in the editor selects a word at the caret and then selects expanding areas of the source code  For example  it may select a method name  then the expression that calls this method  then the whole statement  then the containing block  etc   Ctrl W  Basic Code Completion  to complete methods  keywords etc   Ctrl Space  Go to Declaration  Use this to navigate to the declaration of a class  method or variable used somewhere in the code  Ctrl B  Introduce Variable Refactoring  to create a variable from an expression  This expression may even be incomplete or contain errors  Since version 8  IDEA intelligently selects a likely expression when no text is selected  Ctrl Alt V  Go to Class  to quickly open any class in the editor  Ctrl N  To open any file  not just classes  Ctrl Shift N  Comment Uncomment current line or selection  Ctrl   and Ctrl Shift    Quick JavaDoc Popup to show the JavaDoc of the method or class at the text cursor  Ctrl Q  Ctrl J on Mac OS X   Smart Type Completion to complete an expression with a method call or variable with a type suitable in the current Context  Ctrl Shift Space  Rename refactoring to rename any identifier  Can look in comments  text files and across different languages too  Shift F6  Select in Popup to quickly select the currently edited element  class  file  method or field  in any view  Project View  Structure View or other    Alt F1  Highlight Usages in File  Position the text cursor on any identifier without selecting any text and it will show all places in the file where that variable  method etc  is used  Use it on a throws  try or catch keyword to show all places where the exception is thrown  Use it on the implements keyword to highlight the methods of the implemented interface  Ctrl Shift F7

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Ctrl   N   Open class   Alt   F7   Find usages

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Any combination of Ctrl   Alt   Shift and N   Ctrl   Shift   T in idea8 is also excellent   There is a complete keymap in the online help too

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Any combination of Ctrl   Alt   Shift and N   Ctrl   Shift   T in idea8 is also excellent   There is a complete keymap in the online help too

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Ctrl   N   Open class   Alt   F7   Find usages

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Some of the time savers    Alt   Enter   show intention actions  like Eclipse quick fix  Ctrl   Alt   V   introduce variable  never type the left hand side of an assignment again  Ctrl   Shift   Space   smart completion   even two levels down since IntelliJ 8   Ctrl   W   select succesively increasing code blocks  Kind of obvious but a real time saver    The Canoo blog contains some   8  articles on some more advanced IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts   The Key Promoter and Shortcut keys list plugins are really helpful for  constantly  learning new IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts

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F7 F8 F9   for debugging

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This link has everything you need   Plus in Idea 8 atleast  every shortcut is completely customizable  so it s really up to you what the most useful ones are   Idea 8 reference PDF

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Here are the Intellij IDEA keyboard shortcuts I find most useful  listed in roughly the order of usage for me    The shortcut I use the most is Ctrl   B  Go to declaration   to see what a method does  where a variable is declared etc  This is almost always followed by Ctrl   Alt   Left to get back to where I was  Ctrl   Alt   Right works to    go forward    again    A related navigation shortcut is Ctrl   Alt   B   Go to implementation   Press it when the caret is at the method name of an interface  and you get a pop-up list of all the places where this method is implemented  and you can select which one you want to go to  if there is only one implementation  you go straight there   The same goes for overridden methods   The opposite of this is Ctrl   U  Go to super-method super-class   If the caret is at the implementation of a method in an interface  indicated by the little green interface-symbol in the left gutter   this shortcut takes you to the interface itself   When I want to see all the places where a method or variable is used  which I want to do a lot   I use Ctrl   Alt   F7  Show usages   This gives you a pop-up list of all the usages  and you can easily navigate to each one  I prefer this over Alt   F7  Find usages   which gives you the same information  but in a separate pane below   To find classes  I use Ctrl   N  Go to class   which lets you search using only the capital letters in the class name     camel humps      and   as wildcard   Yet another shortcut I use  both when reading and writing code  is Ctrl   P  Parameter info  at the arguments of methods and constructors  to see the types and names of the parameters   When it comes to writing code  I use Ctrl   space  Basic code completion  a lot to auto-complete method names  variable names etc  or simply to see which methods are available for a certain object  by trying to auto-complete directly at the dot following the name of the object    For searching in the current file I use Ctrl-F  Find - probably the least surprising shortcut in this list   F3 Shift   F3  Find next previous  to repeat the search  and Ctrl   Shift   F  Find in path  to search in the whole project   Ctrl   W  Select successively increasing code blocks  is handy when selecting chunks of code  Repeatedly pressing it selects more and more of the code  Useful when searching  indenting  commenting out code etc   If there are errors in the file  F2 Shift   F2  Next previous highlighted error  will jump to them   I use the sequence Alt   C  N  Show Changes View  to see which files in the project I have modified compared to the subversion repository  To diff the current file against the version in the subversion repository  I use the sequence Alt   C  S  Y  Compare with the Same Repository Version   In the diff view  I use F7 Shift   F7 to navigate between the changes   When not in the diff view  I use Ctrl   Shift   Alt   Up Ctrl   Shift   Alt   Down to jump to the parts of the file that have been changed compared to the checked-out version  At each modification point  you see the corresponding part in the checked-out version in a pop-up window   Finally  I run JUnit tests using Ctrl   Shift   F10   Edit  One really useful shortcut that I ve only started using in the last few months is Ctrl   E  It brings up a pop-up with the 15 most recently used files  and you just arrow down to the one you want and hit enter to navigate to it

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Help Productivity Guide  It tells you what are the shortcuts you use don t use and displays usage statistics  It will guide you to the unknown features

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http   www jetbrains com idea docs ReferenceCard70 mac pdf has everything you need  after a while  you ll develop your own preference for certain shortcuts

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According to the Jetbrains folks  it will have to be these  as they are for the one wearing the shirt   Got that from Devoxx

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Here are the Intellij IDEA keyboard shortcuts I find most useful  listed in roughly the order of usage for me    The shortcut I use the most is Ctrl   B  Go to declaration   to see what a method does  where a variable is declared etc  This is almost always followed by Ctrl   Alt   Left to get back to where I was  Ctrl   Alt   Right works to    go forward    again    A related navigation shortcut is Ctrl   Alt   B   Go to implementation   Press it when the caret is at the method name of an interface  and you get a pop-up list of all the places where this method is implemented  and you can select which one you want to go to  if there is only one implementation  you go straight there   The same goes for overridden methods   The opposite of this is Ctrl   U  Go to super-method super-class   If the caret is at the implementation of a method in an interface  indicated by the little green interface-symbol in the left gutter   this shortcut takes you to the interface itself   When I want to see all the places where a method or variable is used  which I want to do a lot   I use Ctrl   Alt   F7  Show usages   This gives you a pop-up list of all the usages  and you can easily navigate to each one  I prefer this over Alt   F7  Find usages   which gives you the same information  but in a separate pane below   To find classes  I use Ctrl   N  Go to class   which lets you search using only the capital letters in the class name     camel humps      and   as wildcard   Yet another shortcut I use  both when reading and writing code  is Ctrl   P  Parameter info  at the arguments of methods and constructors  to see the types and names of the parameters   When it comes to writing code  I use Ctrl   space  Basic code completion  a lot to auto-complete method names  variable names etc  or simply to see which methods are available for a certain object  by trying to auto-complete directly at the dot following the name of the object    For searching in the current file I use Ctrl-F  Find - probably the least surprising shortcut in this list   F3 Shift   F3  Find next previous  to repeat the search  and Ctrl   Shift   F  Find in path  to search in the whole project   Ctrl   W  Select successively increasing code blocks  is handy when selecting chunks of code  Repeatedly pressing it selects more and more of the code  Useful when searching  indenting  commenting out code etc   If there are errors in the file  F2 Shift   F2  Next previous highlighted error  will jump to them   I use the sequence Alt   C  N  Show Changes View  to see which files in the project I have modified compared to the subversion repository  To diff the current file against the version in the subversion repository  I use the sequence Alt   C  S  Y  Compare with the Same Repository Version   In the diff view  I use F7 Shift   F7 to navigate between the changes   When not in the diff view  I use Ctrl   Shift   Alt   Up Ctrl   Shift   Alt   Down to jump to the parts of the file that have been changed compared to the checked-out version  At each modification point  you see the corresponding part in the checked-out version in a pop-up window   Finally  I run JUnit tests using Ctrl   Shift   F10   Edit  One really useful shortcut that I ve only started using in the last few months is Ctrl   E  It brings up a pop-up with the 15 most recently used files  and you just arrow down to the one you want and hit enter to navigate to it

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Try using the Key Promoter plugin  That will help in learning the shortcuts  Couple of shortcuts apart from the above suggestions    Alt   Ins  Works consistently to insert anything   Add a new class  method etc  Ctrl   Alt   T  Surround code block  Another useful stuff

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Alt   Shift   Insert - switches to column selection mode  allowing the selection of rectangular text fragments  columns   Ctrl   Shift   Backspace - go to most recent code edit  Hit again to go even further back  Very useful when coding something  browsing other classes for a while and then wanting to go back where we left our code   Ctrl E - recently opened files  Ctrl Shift E - recently edited files  Ctrl Shift V - paste one of the previous values from clipboard

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Ctrl   F11 invokes a dialog with all alphanumeric keys on the keyboard  Selecting one empty will add the current line to bookmarks and mark the line with selected key   Shift   F11 invokes a list of bookmarks  Pressing a key takes to associated bookmark

User · Answer

Some of the time savers    Alt   Enter   show intention actions  like Eclipse quick fix  Ctrl   Alt   V   introduce variable  never type the left hand side of an assignment again  Ctrl   Shift   Space   smart completion   even two levels down since IntelliJ 8   Ctrl   W   select succesively increasing code blocks  Kind of obvious but a real time saver    The Canoo blog contains some   8  articles on some more advanced IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts   The Key Promoter and Shortcut keys list plugins are really helpful for  constantly  learning new IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts

User · Answer

One of my real favorites may not count as a keyboard shortcut exactly  But the  iter  smart template is really great   basically if you want to iterate though something using a for loop type  iter  then tab to use the live template  itertab  it will figure out the most likely variable you want to iterate over and generate a for loop for it  I m pretty sure it uses the nearest reference to an object which supports iteration

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Ctrl   N   Open class   Alt   F7   Find usages

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Shift Delete deletes the entire line  will  cut  it to clipboard   Ctrl Alt L to reformat and optimize imports    Ctrl Shift J to join lines  pull content of next line up to current line

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According to the Jetbrains folks  it will have to be these  as they are for the one wearing the shirt   Got that from Devoxx

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Ctrl   Shift   Enter - automatically completes the code statement you are typing  inserting the quotation marks  brackets  curly braces and other punctuation as necessary

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Try using the Key Promoter plugin  That will help in learning the shortcuts  Couple of shortcuts apart from the above suggestions    Alt   Ins  Works consistently to insert anything   Add a new class  method etc  Ctrl   Alt   T  Surround code block  Another useful stuff

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Yes  Ctrl   Shift   A is the most useful one  It s a meta shortcut

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