Intelli J Idea Tricks n Tips

Switch Function key of your mac or windows machine, so that you don’t have to press function key while using F1, F2.

Search:

File Search: Cmd + Shft + O

Text search in whole project : Cmd + Shft + F

Search settings, commands : Cmd + Shft + A    ( Brahmastra )

Navigation:

Disable tabs. We don’t need it.

Recent files: Cmd + E.  Last accessed file, Cmd + E + Enter

Recently edited files: Cmd + Shft + E

Browse backward / forward in history: Cmd + [    OR Cmd + ]

Project Window Toggle: Alt + 1

In project window setting Autoscroll from source

Open a selected file from project window: F4

Create new file: Ctr + Alt + N

Hide all windows except Code editor:  Cmd + Shft + F12

Toggle Terminal: Cmd + F12

Find implementation of any method: Cmd + Alt + F8

Find usages: Cmd + F7   OR   Cmd + B

Remove navigation bar, from View menu.

Code Editor:

Move code up or down: Alt + Shft + Up / down

Duplicate a line : Cmd + D

Delete Line : Cmd + Delete

Reformat Code: Cmd + Alt + L

While writing json or html in the string, you can do Alt + Enter -> Inject language -> Json.  

And you will be able to create json in json editor. Same can be done for regular expressions. Once as string is marked as regular expression, you can do the validation against it.

Invoke surround with: Cmd + Alt + T. useful to add try catch block

Suggest function argument: Cmd + P

List methods: Cmd + F12

Next error in the file : F2

Run project: Ctrl + R

Debug project: Ctrl + D

Use Evaluate Expressions in debugging mode to check dynamic code changes without restarting project

Misc:

Use scratch file for temporary code. It gets auto-deleted when closed