My 5 Favorite IDEA Shortcut Key Combinations
Brian was showing David some neat shortcut key combinations in IntelliJ IDEA a moment ago. I jumped into the conversation and asked Brian: "Close your eyes. And name five of your most often used IntelliJ IDEA shortcut key combinations." I didn't write down his answer, but here is my five favorite (not in the sense that I like them the most, but in the sense that when I close my eyes, these are the five that comes to my mind first because I use them regularly:
What are your favorite IDEA shortcuts?
- Control-n: find class
- Control-q: quick Javadoc
- Control-Alt-v: introduce variable
- Shift-F6: rename
- Control-Shift-Space: smart completion
What are your favorite IDEA shortcuts?
Re: My 5 Favorite IDEA Shortcut Key Combinations
If you click on Productivity Guide under the help menu, you can see stats on which features you use the most. The top of my list is:
- Ctrl+w: select word (press it repeatedly to increase the scope of the selection) I've apparently used this 7,615 times; once every 19 minutes.
- Ctrl+Space (duh)
- Ctrl+B: (I actually middle mouse click rather than using the keyboard shortcut)
- Ctrl+N
- Ctrl+Slash: Comment/Uncomment
Re: My 5 Favorite IDEA Shortcut Key Combinations
I tried posting this earlier, but it didn't take... I'll try again:
IDEA has a feature on the help menu called Productivity Guide. It tells you which features you use the most and how often you use them. Apparently, these are my favorite shortcuts:
- ctrl-w: selects the current word. Every time you press it after that, it increases the scope of the selection. I apparently have used this 7,618 times (every 19 minutes). shift-ctrl-w goes the other direction.
- ctrl-space (duh)
- ctrl-b: code navigation. I actually middle-click on things to navigate code, but I guess Idea is counting by features rather than shortcuts
- ctrl-n
- ctrl+slash - comment/uncomment
Re: My 5 Favorite IDEA Shortcut Key Combinations
One thing that puzzles me since I realized this is the fact that no other IDE seems to have ctrl-alt-b: I mean, not only the shortcut, but the actual feature! This is my favorite shortcut, along with ctrl-n, ctrl-alt-left and ctrl-alt-right it allows super-fast navigation in huge class structures, and to quickly grasp complex architectures. Also ctrl-alt-h on methods...