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IntelliJ: Cheat Sheet.

Works for all IDEs based on Intelli J.

Tiya Chows
2 min readFeb 27, 2020

Below is a list of keyboard short cuts for IntelliJ.

IntelliJ specific:

  1. Everywhere other than the editor is searchable! Ctrl+f anywhere!

2. Ctrl+shift+a search actions that are available e.g if dart is installed, you can search dart to find out what actions are available e.g what the keybindings are, change settings.

Use Alt+enter to then assign a keybinding to a frequently used action.

3. Ctrl+shift+n search files e.g lib/notes_view: 30: 12 .(folder/file:linenumber:column)

4. Ctrl+n search classes e.g “NotesSummView” or “NSV” will match NotesSummaryView — using regex.

5. Ctrl+e vertical list of all of recently viewed files — to avoid trying to find a file that’s open in a tab.

6. Ctrl+shift+e recently viewed file directory locations.

7. F2 to navigate through a file where there are issues.

8. Alt+1 project view.

9. Alt+7 structure view.

10. Favourites
Create favourites folder and can drag in files, especially when files are far apart.

11. Alt+9 version control, view changes and the type ctrl+D to see where the changes are in each file change.

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Tiya Chows
Tiya Chows

Written by Tiya Chows

Software Engineer @GoldmanSachs. I write technical articles about building software, but short stories and poetry feed my soul.

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