Ten Keyboard Shortcuts for IntelliJ IDEA
For my day job I use Java quite a bit. And to edit I use IntelliJ IDEA. I used to use Eclipse but work paid for an IntelliJ IDEA license and I’ve become hooked. The refactorings and clean interface are a boon to my productivity.
Well this post isn’t an IntelliJ IDEA fanboy post so let’s get back on track. Here’s a list of shortcuts that I find most helpful for use with IntelliJ IDEA. Note that these aren’t the obvious ones (like Alt-Space for code completion). These are some hidden ones that you might not know about it.
- Ctrl-/
- Comment out the selected lines with //.
- Ctrl-D
- Copy the current line and paste it.
- Ctrl-Y
- Delete the current line.
- Ctrl-BACKSPACE
- Delete to word end from cursor.
- Ctrl-DEL
- Delete to word start from cursor.
- Ctrl-W
- Select the current word. Press it again and it selects more of the code block.
- Shift+F10
- Run the configuration
- Shift+F9
- Debug the configuration
- Alt+F7
- Find usages of the current word
- Ctrl-J
- Bring up the Live Template context menu. If you don’t know about Live Templates, you can save major keystrokes by defining them.
For a complete list of keyboard shortcuts for IntelliJ IDEA, there’s a PDF issued by JetBrains floating around.
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