Navigation in IntelliJ IDEA

Although we can use the mouse to move around IntelliJ IDEA, the key to real productivity is to get used to using the keyboard. This video demonstrates the most useful keyboard shortcuts for moving around the IDE. We look at:
- Basic navigation
- Maximising the IDE for code
- Keyboard shortcuts for opening tool windows
- Finding and navigating to recent files
- Navigating to recent locations
- Navigate to class
- Navigate to file
- Navigate to Symbol
- Navigate to declaration or implementation
- Find usages
- Navigate to/from the unit test
- Search everywhere, and defining abbreviations
- Run anywhere & stop anything

*Author: Trisha Gee

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Category: Navigating Projects

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[michaelmcmasters]

Control + shift + e is like alt-tab but for code blocks. So useful!

[plisskn]

Cmd+Shift+E ist cool. If you are using Android Studio, it's available with 3.5 which is currently in canary.

[scuras]

Thank you 💥 Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow for Navigate->Back does not work for me. Any idea?

[divx]

Still confused to to get back the default view ? The top menu bar is hidden . Somehow did not like this IDE, that's why I prefer eclipse as it is simple and easy to use.

[owntor]

If I search the project sidebar for example it does not find files that are in a collapsed directory. Is this by design?

[bhanuprakashkonatham]

I can't find main menu on top of the screen in macbook can you help me....?

[Mosesonline]

Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right arrow flips the display on windows.