Top 15 IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts

IntelliJ IDEA has keyboard shortcuts for most of its commands related to editing, navigation, refactoring, debugging, and other tasks. Memorizing these hotkeys can help you stay more productive by keeping your hands on the keyboard.

Alt+Enter - Show Intention Actions
F2 - Next Highlighted Error
⌘1 or Alt+1 - Project Tool Window
Esc - Focus on the Editor
⌘E or Ctrl+E - View Recent Files
⌘B or Ctrl+B - Go to Declaration
Alt+F7 - Find Usages
Ctrl Ctrl - Run Anything
⌥↑ / ⌥↓ or Ctrl + W / Shift + Ctrl + W - Extend or Shrink Selection
⌘/ or Ctrl + / - Add/Remove Line Comment (⌥⌘/ or Shift+Ctrl+/ for Block Comment)
⇧⌘⏎ or Shift+Ctrl+Enter - Complete Current Statement
⌥⌘L or Ctrl+Alt+L - Reformat Code
⌃T or Shift+Ctrl+Alt+T - Refactor This
⇧⌘A or Shift+Ctrl+A - Find Action
Shift Shift - Search Everywhere

*Author: Trisha Gee

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[andeslam]

00:12 Alt + enter Suggestions for error correction
01:18 F2 Navigate errors
01:37 Alt + 1 Open project window
01:59 Esc Focus back to editor
02:19 Ctrl + E View recent files
02:41 Ctrl + B See declaration of symbol
03:07 Alt + F7 See usage
03:45 Ctrl + ctrl Run anything
03:52 Shift + Ctrl + W / Ctrl + W Expand / Close selection
04:20 Ctrl + / Comment Shift + Ctrl + / Comment Block
04:51 Shift + Ctrl + Enter Auto complete
05:34 Ctrl + Alt + L Reformat file
06:07 Shift + Ctrl + Alt + T Refactor
06:37 Shift + Ctrl + A Find action
07:07 Shift + Shift Search

[shutanovac]

I personally like the Ctrl+Shift+Backspace, it will navigate to the last edit position, so it goes great with other navigation shortcuts.

[sv]

Shortcuts are SO important. I see junior programmers manually typing so much stuff. It's the diff between fixing an issue in 4 hours instead of 2 days

[albanach]

One Eclipse user didn’t like the video...
Well done Trisha!

[daniel.valdivia]

This was amazing, thanks for doing this video, it's going to save a lot of time on my daily coding

[Darwho]

Amazing, love it ! I am a student and your policy of free licences for us is a bliss to me.
And it's very smart from your company, because it shows what is the gold standard for this industry.
I am convinced I will buy the full 650$ year licence in the future. Keep up the good work !

[crazyconan]

Thank you for the cheatsheet in the description, overall this video was really helpful. I'm hoping one day soon I'll be able to navigate and program in Intellij without needing the mouse.

[raghavanaliassaravananm]

A very useful video for the beginners. Thank you Trisha for the very good screen cast I am sure it would be a catalyst to spread the love for Intellij IDEA :)

[antonhen]

Thanks for onboarding tour! Great job!

[giriNITT]

Just now i am moving from eclipse to IntelliJ. this video is really use ful

[valcron-]

Mac: Cmd + T
Windows: Ctrl + Shift + Alt + T


Windows: Am I a joke to you?

[TimothyBrake]

A useful feature would be: an “Eval” button of variables on the digital touch bar on a MacBook Pro when debugging. Currently right click mouse > select Eval

[jnpxrph]

Thank you very much, it was very informative!

[johnreddyzhang]

This showed as an ad in my timeline but I do not regret clicking on it.

[no_fb]

Thanks for the video! One correction: in Linux, Alt+1 (or any number) doesn't work unfortunately - or it only does for qwerty keyboards. There aren't many problems with those IDEs though, they're really the best!

[zakuciael]

There is so many useful tools, but I can't remember them all to even be able look for them... But I still love Intellij IDEA.

[VibrantAmit]

how do I move anywhere in the code without using the touchpad, I mean what are the shortcuts for that like we have VScode(using vim extension). Please do let me know if intelliJ have it too

[sunnysam]

If you think it is difficult to remember predefined shortcuts, you have the option to change it as you like.

[satyad]

Alt + 4 to bring up the logging console

[abhiroy]

How to navigate between tabs on the IDE?