JetBrains keyboard navigation basics

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IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm JetBrains Keyboard Navigation[^ ]

[^ ]: Mike Christianson

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Look For the Thing You're Looking For

⌘+⇧+A Find Action

⇧⇧ Search Everywhere

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

⌘ ⌥

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Presentation Assist Plugin

Shows keyboard shortcuts as you use them.

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YOLO

Disable Tabs

Disable Nav Bar

⌘+E Recent Files

⇧+⌘+E Recently Edited Files

⌘+↑ Navigation Bar

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Navigate Entities

⌘+O Navigate Class

⇧+⌘+O Navigate File

⌘+⌥+O Navigate Symbol

or

⇧⇧ Search Everywhere

try with line numbers!

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Make it Go Away

⇧+⌘+F12 Hide All Tool Windows

⎋ Escape (back to editor)

⇧+⎋ Hide Active Tool Window

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From Here To There

⌘+↓ Jump to Source

⇧+F4 Open Source in New Window

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Within a File

⌘+F12 File Structure

⌘+L Navigate to Line Number

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More of the Same

⇧+⌘+F7 Highlight Usages in File, then ⌘+G Next Occurrence

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Back to Last Edit

⇧+⌘+⌫ Last Edit Location

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Plugins

• Features Trainer lessons for learning keyboard shortcuts
• Key Promoter will harass you for not using keyboard shortcuts

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Keymap Reference

A PDF of the default keyboard shortcuts.

(⌘+⇧+A > "keymap reference")

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Life Preservers

⌘+⇧+A Find Action

⇧⇧ Search Everywhere

These keys don't quite map to what I have in linux land, but simply knowing that they exist has been hugely helpful. Great job!