This is a silly question and I apologize but I can not find the solution ANYwhere and I can't code with this situation but at the moment, when I press Alt + 7 or any number it opens some window in IntelliJ like the project structure or something like that, when before it always typed the curly brackets or square brackets. I don't know what caused this change as I didn't mess with any settings so help would be greatly appreciated.
Um so apparently switching languages back and forth eventually fixes the problem
When working with IntelliJ on a JavaProject it shows to use alt + enter to import a class for example, but this isnt working anymore. It worked in the past, but something must have changed, -the shortcut is still set,-other shortcut would work- i cant assign alt+enter manually, although if i reset it to default it gets set to it, any ideas how to fix my problem? btw my keyboard layout is german, but i dont think it is the problem because it worked in the past, my os is win 7. edited: when i am working within the IDE and i e.g. write Arrays.toString(a); and didn't import "java.util.Arrays" yet, the IDE says: " ? java.util.Arrays? Alt+Eingabe" (Eingabe = Enter in German) so when i assign a different shortcut it works, but with Alt+Enter it doesnt thanks in advance for any help.
"Well, it means IDE doesn't see the shortcut for some reason. Probably it's already used by some other application or the operating system. – CrazyCoder 25 mins ago "
i closed all applications and it turns out that, Facebook GameRoom, running in the background, somehow is the reason the shortcut doesn't work, i have no idea why, but thats the solution
many thanks to CrazyCoder
It was working earlier but it stopped working due to unknown reason,
One workaround is Try fn+Alt+Enter
I had the same problem
and it turned out to be the keyboard language in Windows, It wasn't english,
so just make sure you are on English
On my side, culprit is some VPN software called PulseSecure
fn + Alt+Enter+Shift worked for me (credits #ketankk).
My problem solved. just try :
LEFT Alt + Enter
LEFT Alt+Enter
Looks like some languages override Right Alt behavior, at least in case of Lithuanian Left Alt is working fine with Lithuanian enabled, Right does not, when switch to English, everything is fine again. Was pulling hair to figure out why out of nowhere it stops working, thanks
In my case hint is showing Alt + Shift + Enter, but Ctrl+Shift+Enter works for some reason oO
In my case, I mapped Alt+Enter to a system shortcut (for expanding the current window) and I forgot. So it might not be another program, but your past self-sabotaging you.
I have the same issue. Alt+Insert not working while I was trying to generate getters/setters for my POJO class.
I just added another shortcut for that "Generate" operation.
If you are using Intellij Idea, you can do that by following steps:
Go to File -> Settings -> Keymap.
On the search bar appeared, search for "Generate", you will find an entry to which assigned shortcut will be Alt+Insert.
Right click on this entry and select 'Add Keyboard shorcut'.
Now, type your own shortcut that you want. In my case, I used Ctrl+Shift+G.
It worked fine and now I am using my new shortcut for Generate operation.
I had the same problem while upgrading to a new IDE version. The cause was a plugin error in new IDE version, I resolved disabling/updating that plugin.
I think i hit something or did something while learning to code in java on intelliJ idea. My code below which is just two lines of }} are not moving down so when i enter it types over them. so i have to actively manually enter them downwards
did you hit the insert button? that is normally my problem when overwriting vs inserting.
is it overwritting everything or just when you hit return?
So I've just migrated to Fedora Linux and ran over this problem when using my Idea. I have a notebook (no numpad) and I previously used the very same Idea (Ultimate, latest) with Win10 on this very same notebook and did not experience this.
I use default English layout. In the lower row of QWERTY, to the right there is / button which is also ? with shift. It works as expected anywhere else, but in Idea, when I use it as a CTRL + / shortcut it actually treats it as a Ctrl + . Thus, instead of commenting selected block of code, it collapses it. I checked it in Settings -> Keymap and this is exactly how Idea interprets it.
Is there any way to change this back to normal? I don't really want to rebind this hotkey as I'm used to it by now.
Posting a workaround that helped me.
So the bug i'm experiencing is this one and it's weird how the bug is still there.
So in my case it didn't work as expected because I had Russian keyboard layout set as first. Switching Russian to second and English to first fixed the problem for me. That's not really a 'solution', rather than a 'workaround', but it worked for me.
Everyone knows that when you select some text in IntelliJ and press Ctrl+w your selection is expanded.
However,
you're kinda stuck on the presets for this:
when you have following code:
<a4j:commandButton execute="#form" render="tableProperties"
value="#{cjr_main.addExtractType}"
action="#{ExtractTypesBean.addExtractType()}"
styleClass="bigButton"
oncomplete="setLineAdded();"/>
and "Line" is selected but the method setLineAdded() is not yet defined you'd want "setLineAdded()" to be selected after hitting ctrl+w a couple of times.
However
Once "setLineAdded" is selected, and you press ctrl + w the whole tag is selected in stead of the accompanying "()"'s...
Is there a way to get this behavior?
(without writing a whole IntelliJ plugin just for this?)
best regards,
S.
No, the behavior of extend selection is controlled by code and is not configurable by users. You can indeed write a plugin to change the behavior.