People are good, they are smart but when they get tools they make wonders. Being a programmer its always a necessary thing to know your tools. If you want to make a beautiful softwares and you don’t have a right tool you probably will not finish it or you will lose trying. To complete your work on time you should know your tools well.
I will be listing down some shortcuts of Intellij IDEA which I use rigorously during development. I will be updating these shortcuts here in the course of time. I use MacOS but you can easily find key mappings for Linux and Windows in Intellij preferences. I am using Mac OS X 10.5+ key mapping here. This key mapping will similar to mac shortcuts. I will also update the key mappings for Mac OS X in coming days which is similar to Linux and Windows operating systems. The following shortcuts will cover Navigation shortcuts, Refactor shortcuts and Code shortcuts.
Navigation Shortcuts :
⌘O : Open any class file in project.
⌘⇧O : Open any file in the project.
⇧⇧ : Search everywhere in the project.
⌘↑ : Navigation Bar.
⌘L : Jump to line number.
⌘E : Recently opened files.
⌃⇥ : Switching between tool windows and working editor.
⌘B : Jump to declaration of code.
⌥⌘B : Jump to implementation of code.
There are many other navigation shortcuts which you can dig into but I will be covering most used shortcuts by me.
Refactor Shortcuts :
⌘F6 : Changing signature of the method across the project.
⇧F6 : Renaming file/variable across the project.
⌥⌘F : Make field.
⌥⌘C : Make constant.
⌥⌘V : Make variable.
⌥⌘P : Make method parameter.
⌥⌘M : Make method.
If you are following TDD pattern then these refactor shortcuts are life saver.
Code Shortcuts :
⌘N : Generate..
⌃O : Override methods.
⌃I : Implement methods.
⌥⌘L : Reformat code.
⌃⌥O : Optimize imports.
⇧⌘↑ : Move line up.
⇧⌘↓ : Move line down.
⌘/ : Comment single line.
⌥⌘/ : Comment block of lines.
I have tried to cover most of the shortcuts which I use on regular basis. I will be adding more if I find something useful.
