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I am a big fan of Intellij. But the single most feature I hate about their products is keyboard shortcuts. If they follow standard unix shortcuts along with sta

by croh 7y ago

I am a big fan of Intellij. But the single most feature I hate about their products is keyboard shortcuts. If they follow standard unix shortcuts along with standard browser shortcuts, it will be more productive.

zrg 7y ago
Rebind them?
banads 7y ago
Can't you customize all the shortcuts according to your own needs?
Denvercoder9 7y ago
You can configure the style of keyboard shortcuts used.
folkhack 7y ago
I'm with you that the defaults aren't my favorite... but as a heavy Sublime user I was able to migrate the bindings over that made sense to me... Intellij products are insanely configurable. Also - I would either use their cloud sync and/or VCS to back-up your customizations. It sucks switching to a new computer and losing a day re-configuring your IDE back to baseline =|
- owl57 7y ago
  Is it easy to use VCS for that? Last time I checked it wasn't [1]. In fact, that is maybe the main thing keeping me from learning IntelliJ tools more: I'm not comfortable with programs that I know I will want to customize but can't just git add the customizations to the dotfiles repo. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37776684/which-intellij-config-files-should-i-save-in-my-dotfiles https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37776684/which-intellij-...
  - folkhack 7y ago
    I've done it in the past but I'll admit it's been years since I've used it. The cloud sync thing works just fine for me and fits well with the subscription model etc. Looks like they may have gone off the deep-end with the configuration files - I remember the ability to export to a MUCH smaller file but this was probably 4 years ago at this point.
randomidiot666 7y ago
File -> Settings -> Keymap -> Configure
benibela 7y ago
I was completely baffled when I noticed Ctrl+Q is the shortcut to open the documentation
jmiserez 7y ago
Give it two weeks. I agree the debugging F-keys are a bit strange, but a great thing is that you can do everything without touching the mouse once you know the keys. And for any shortcut you don't know, just use the Actions search.
akersten 7y ago
Going to go out on a limb here and say that I think the IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts make more sense than any other IDE I've used. Control+Alt+L for code lint & format makes a heck of a lot more sense than the two separate Control+K Control+J or whatever that Visual Studio demands. Same for optimize imports - Control+Alt+O(ptimize) instead of Control+K Control+I or whatever in VS. I haven't used Eclipse in ages, but I remember those shortcuts being bad enough that I never bothered to learn them. Switch to file by name? IntelliJ: Control+E + type name + enter. VS: Control+semicolon (??) + type name + enter (if you're lucky, or you might have to go double click it in the project pane). Of course, this is all a matter of preference, and the bindings can be changed. Although if you prefer the "chorded" shortcuts of VS, I don't know if IntelliJ supports that :)

by croh 7y ago

zrg 7y ago

Rebind them?

banads 7y ago

Can't you customize all the shortcuts according to your own needs?

Denvercoder9 7y ago

You can configure the style of keyboard shortcuts used.

folkhack 7y ago

I'm with you that the defaults aren't my favorite... but as a heavy Sublime user I was able to migrate the bindings over that made sense to me... Intellij products are insanely configurable. Also - I would either use their cloud sync and/or VCS to back-up your customizations. It sucks switching to a new computer and losing a day re-configuring your IDE back to baseline =|

owl57 7y ago
Is it easy to use VCS for that? Last time I checked it wasn't [1]. In fact, that is maybe the main thing keeping me from learning IntelliJ tools more: I'm not comfortable with programs that I know I will want to customize but can't just git add the customizations to the dotfiles repo. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37776684/which-intellij-config-files-should-i-save-in-my-dotfiles https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37776684/which-intellij-...
- folkhack 7y ago
  I've done it in the past but I'll admit it's been years since I've used it. The cloud sync thing works just fine for me and fits well with the subscription model etc. Looks like they may have gone off the deep-end with the configuration files - I remember the ability to export to a MUCH smaller file but this was probably 4 years ago at this point.

randomidiot666 7y ago

File -> Settings -> Keymap -> Configure

benibela 7y ago

I was completely baffled when I noticed Ctrl+Q is the shortcut to open the documentation

jmiserez 7y ago

Give it two weeks. I agree the debugging F-keys are a bit strange, but a great thing is that you can do everything without touching the mouse once you know the keys. And for any shortcut you don't know, just use the Actions search.

akersten 7y ago

Going to go out on a limb here and say that I think the IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts make more sense than any other IDE I've used. Control+Alt+L for code lint & format makes a heck of a lot more sense than the two separate Control+K Control+J or whatever that Visual Studio demands. Same for optimize imports - Control+Alt+O(ptimize) instead of Control+K Control+I or whatever in VS. I haven't used Eclipse in ages, but I remember those shortcuts being bad enough that I never bothered to learn them. Switch to file by name? IntelliJ: Control+E + type name + enter. VS: Control+semicolon (??) + type name + enter (if you're lucky, or you might have to go double click it in the project pane). Of course, this is all a matter of preference, and the bindings can be changed. Although if you prefer the "chorded" shortcuts of VS, I don't know if IntelliJ supports that :)