Useful IntelliJ IDEA Shortcuts

A collection of essential keyboard shortcuts (for Mac only for now) to boost your productivity in IntelliJ IDEA. I’ll keep this updated as I discover more useful shortcuts.

Editing

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• ⌃Space - Basic code completion
• ⌥Enter - Show intention actions and quick-fixes

• ⌥⌘L - Reformat code
• ⌘D - Duplicate current line or selection
• ⌘⌫ - Delete line at caret
• ⌘/ - Comment/uncomment with line comment
• ⌥⌘/ - Comment/uncomment with block comment
• Shift + ↑/↓ - Select multiple lines
• Shift + Alt + ↑/↓ - Move selected lines up/down
• ⌃G - Add next occurrence
• ⌃⌘G - Select all occurrences
• ⌥↩(Enter) - open intention action menu
  • Add type annotation to function definition
  • Change access modifier
  • Open Github copilot inline chat
  • Add Scala Doc
• Tab - Jump to the right past closing characters (when cursor is inside quotes, brackets, or braces)
• ⌘ + → - Moves to the end of the line

Navigation

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• ⌘O - Go to class
• ⇧⌘O - Go to file

• F12 - Jump to last tool window
• Esc - Return to editor from tool window
• ⌘L - Go to line
• ⌘E - Recent files popup
• ⌥F7 - Find usages
• ⌘B - Go to declaration

Search/Replace

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• ⇧⇧ - Search everywhere (double-tap shift)
• ⌘F - Find
• ⌘R - Replace
• ⇧⌘F - Find in path
• ⇧⌘R - Replace in path

Refactoring

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• ⇧F6 - Rename
• ⌥⌘M - Extract method
• ⌥⌘V - Extract variable
• ⌥⌘F - Extract field
• ⌥⌘C - Extract constant
• ⌃⌥O - Optimize imports

Running & Debugging

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• ⌃R - Run
• ⌃D - Debug
• F8 - Step over
• F7 - Step into
• ⌥⌘R - Resume program
• ⌘F8 - Toggle breakpoint
• ⇧⌘F8 - View breakpoints

Windows Management

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• ⌘1, ⌘2... - Open corresponding tool window
• ⌃Tab - Switch between tabs and tool windows
• ⇧⌘' - Maximize/restore editor
• ⌘[ - Navigate back
• ⌘] - Navigate forward

Productivity Boosters

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• ⌃⌥H - Call hierarchy
• ⌘F12 - File structure popup
• ⌘7 - To open File Structure side window