JetBrains IDEs ¶

All JetBrains IDEs share the same interface, and many common features such as:

• 🚀 Code improvement tips
• 🧼 Bugs, code smells, and typos detection
• ✨ GIT integration
• 🌍 Use of remote tools or environment
• 🗺️ UML generation for supported languages

And in each IDE, some languages, frameworks, and build tools have additional features and support.

💵 Aside from IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, all IDEs are paid.

📱 Android Studio, by Google, is based on IntelliJ IDEA community.

🎓 Their IDEs are free for students.

🔥 You can manage all of their IDEs using the toolbox.

🌍 You can invite others to code with you. Use CTRL+SHIFT+Y to generate a link. They will have to download a special version of the IDE. You can share your terminal with + > shared.

There is a green play icon next to the code that you can run:

This will create a Run configuration, which is a wrapper to all information related to the execution of your program. You could add compiler options, program arguments...

You can create, edit, or select a configuration here:

When coding, the IDE will highlight or underline problems.

Quick fixes ¶

By hovering over a problem, you'll have an explanation, along with suggested fixes. There is the ALT+ENTER shortcut for all quick fixes.

Autocompletion ¶

When writing something, use TAB to select a choice from the suggested list. Use arrows to move up/down.

Use CTRL+ENTER to manually trigger auto-completion.

🔥 There is a search menu to look for files (CTRL+SHIFT+N), settings (CTRL+SHIFT+A). Open it with Double Shift.

• To enable zoom on scroll, search mouse wheel.
• To add a * to modified files, search mark modified.
• To set the proofreading language, search natural language.
• To enable soft wraps, search soft wrap.

Editing shortcuts ¶

• CTRL+C, CTRL+V, CTRL+X, CTRL+A, CTRL+F: common ones
• CTRL+D: duplicate line or selection
• SHIFT+ARROWS: select a lot of lines
• CTRL+Z: undo
• CTRL+SHIFT+Z: redo 🙄
• CTRL+SHIFT+F: look for a word in a scope (project, folder...)

Use CTRL+SHIFT+U to toggle uppercase/lowercase.

Programming-specific ¶

Comments

• CTRL+Q: show the documentation of the selected element
• CTRL+/: comment selected lines (inline comment, such as //)
• CTRL+SHIFT+/: comment selected lines (block comment, such as /*)

Generation

• ALT+INSERT: generate getters, setters, methods...
• CTRL+ALT+T: wrap selection inside a if/for/...
• CTRL+ALT+MAJ+U (paid): generate UML of selected files

Navigation

• SHIFT+MouseLeft: on a function call/..., navigate to the source
• ALT+F7: on a function/variable, list users
• CTRL+SHIFT+E: show the last opened/edited files

👉 Using todo or fixme in a comment, mark it as a TO-DO.

Interface ¶

The interface has often changed over the years, especially as they are moving to a more compact interface.

👉 Use CTRL+E to see available menus.

🔥 There is a GIT menu and a TODO menu which are helpful.

ContextMenu ¶

The context menu is the left-click menu. These are worth a mention:

• Analyze 🔎: list all code smells, typos...
• Refactor 🎯: rename an element (smart renaming)
• Reformat 🧼: code cleanup
• Local History 🖼️: all changes to a file

GIT 🎒 ¶

There are two tabs: the "commit" tab (ALT+0), to commit and push, and the "git" tab (ALT+9), to see commits, checkout branch...

Refactor 🧼 ¶

You can refactor (rename) variables, functions, files. Once you do try, you'll see a list of all detected locations that use the element.

✨ Before confirming the refactoring, you can exclude or remove unwanted changes.

Snippets 🚀 ¶

Navigate to Settings > Editor > Live template. Create a new live template. Select the scope where it can be used.

You can create variables using $variable_name$.

• ```xxx!
• scratch files
• Project view
• CTRL-P
• Database (select a schema, SSH tunnel, query console)