Editor Tips and Tricks in IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA has lots of keyboard shortcuts and features that can help us to write code, but we don't always know about them. In this video, we're going to see some shortcuts that we can use in the editor to make it easier to write and edit code.

⇧⌘F12 or Ctrl+Shift+F12 - hide all windows except the active editor;
⌘⌫ or Ctrl+Y - delete a line;
⌘X or Ctrl+X - cut a line;
⌘V or Ctrl+V - paste a line;
⇧⌘↑ or Ctrl+Shift+Up - move a statement;
⌘C or Ctrl+C - copy a whole line;
⌘D or Ctrl+D - duplicate a line;
⌃⇧J or Ctrl+Shift+J - smart line join;
⌘⏎ or Ctrl+Enter - smart line split;
⌥↑ or Ctrl+W - extend selection
⌥↓ or Ctrl+Shift+W - shrink selection;
⇧⌘8 or Alt+Shift+Insert - enable column selection mode;
⌘G or F3 - find next;
⌃⌘G or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J - select all occurrences;
⌘⇧V or Ctrl+Shift+V - paste from recent buffers

*Author: Trisha Gee

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[laithal-zoubi]

Getting used to IntelliJ IDEA makes you feel that other IDEs are underdeveloped.

[anhquocnguyen]

so many super helpful shortcuts. thank you

[alexanderdruzhynin]

Thanks for copy history - everything else already known.

[zizifn]

for the copy history, you may want to try ditto.

[truth-]

Thank you very much for your effort.
👍
But joining two strings together is not extremely useful, because it is really very very rare, and I have been programming for a while.
😀

[kennethcarvalho]

not working for me in intellij 2019.2...is that a version issue?

[eric]

I came to know that by 2021 the JetBrains coding assistant will be ready and voice coding will be possible. User will be able to tell "IntelliJ create a class" and developer will have answer questions that it will ask and it will generate code. No more typing. You can tell it to run, debug etc.