I was wondering. Is it possible to add number shortcut to corresponding actions inside Intention Actions window? Like with String Manipulations plugin:
For example in this case:
I would love to press Alt+Enter and then 3 to Create object buzz - I know for a lot of cases I can use shortcut for example ctrl+alt+v for a variable extraction but not for all.
I was looking for this kind of plugin but without a result
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IntelliJ comes with 2 abbreviations that I have used a lot in the past, but cannot find in PhpStorm:
iter Iterate (for each..in)
itar Iterate elements of array (traditional loop)
So whenever I typed iter and pressed tab, it generated an enhanced for-loop. How can I achieve this in PhpStorm?
PHPStorm has live template so you can use it to generate several types of code snippets.
Live templates can be used to insert frequently-used constructs into your source code, for example, loops, conditions, various declarations, print statements, tags, and so on. To expand a code snippet, type the corresponding template abbreviation and press Tab. Keep pressing Tab to jump from one variable in the template to the next. Press Shift+Tab to move to a previous variable
I think this link is useful and also suggest that you read this link
for creating a new snippet you can go settings > Editor > Live Template
I'm working on a huge project that has thousands of TODO items. So when I go to the TODO tool window in IntelliJ IDEA it shows all of them. How can I search for a specific one?
If you want to define which TODOs should be found, you are able to set filter and patterns.
In TODO panel click on Filter TODO Items and select Edit Filters
Here you are able to set filters and patterns which should be used. More about that is on their site https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.2/defining-todo-patterns-and-filters.html.
Keep in mind that after you define a new filter, Intellij will start with Indexing (long proccess for huge projects:( )
Also Intellij IDEA TODO tool lets you select from which part you want to see a TODOs (top bar on uploaded image) or you can simply show all TODOs and start typing (classic searching).
First, expand all the todos (view the side menu or by pressing CTRL+numpad +. Then just start typing, and IntelliJ will take you to the first place the string you searched for appears, be it a name of a folder, file or the text of the todo comment itself. Like any other search in IntelliJ, you can use the ↑ and ↓ keys to jump between items matching your search string.
If you are using a mac, keys ⌘6 (command key and number 6 key) will do the magic.
Press alt+6 to search *TODO* comment.
You might also want to view only the TODOs you have added in your current branch. You can use the Default Changelist tab for this:
The Scope Based tab also gives you some useful options for narrowing down the TODOs too:
This is not the exact answer to the given question, but it helped for me, so maybe it will also help someone else :)
What I haven't notice earlier is that TODO Tool Window/tab has some child tabs on the top. For me, the most usefull one, was the tab „Current file”. I was made aware of this feature after looking in official IDE documentation:
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/todo-tool-window.html
There are lots of useful functions of Intellij IDEA and for many of them there are keyboard shortcuts.
But remembering shortcuts may be difficult, at least for me.
Are there some consistent guiding principles by which these shortcuts were selected by designers? I believe learning such principles would be helpful to memorize shortcuts itself.
I think that the closest answer you're going to get is "it depends". Some shortcuts are obviously chosen, because the keybinding describes what the shortcut does, for example ⌘+O means open, not only in IntelliJ but in many places throughout OS X.
Some shortcuts probably don't have any kind of such semantic meaning, such as Alt+Enter and are chosen because they are very frequently used and the placement of the keys relative to each other is comfortable.
Other keyboard shortcuts with similar purpose have the same starting sequence of keys. For instance the extract refactoring shortcuts, which are as follows:
⌘+Alt+M - extract method
⌘+Alt+C - extract constant
⌘+Alt+V - extract variable
⌘+Alt+F - extract field
⌘+Alt+P - extract parameter
So in such case you only need to remember that if you want to extract something, you press ⌘+Alt and the first letter of what you want to extract.
That being said, I don't believe that the way to learning the keybindings is memorizing them, but using them. If you use one keybinding multiple times, over the time you will memorize it. You can help this process for instance by locating the action you want to perform in the menu, but instead of clicking it look at the keyboard shortcut next to it and press it. Or find the action using ⌘+Shift+A, look at the shortcut and use it.
There are even plugins, which can help you with this, for instance Key Promoter which you can install via Settings/Plugins/Browse Repositories. This plugin shows you shortcut you can use when you invoke some actions by clicking it in menu, etc. It also shows you how many times you've used this action in such a way instead of using the corresponding shortcut.
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.
I could not find the live templates for Java! Who can tell me how to set? Thanks.
They're inside all the nodes that are not specific to another language than Java: iterations, output, plain, surround, etc.
As JB Nizet wrote there is not a special node for Java (but you can create one). If you want your own Live Template for Java created do the following.
Open Settings window (File -> Settings)
Click on Editor -> Live Templates
Choose Template Group in which you want to add your Live Template
(you can create your own Template Group if you wish)
Click on + icon and choose Live Template
Specify the Abbreviation, Description and Template text.
Do not forget to define the context (in your case Java)
Example
Here is an example of how to create your own TODO text
Open the Setting window with Live Templates editor (as specified above).
Click on + icon and select Template Group.
Name this group Java.
Click on + icon again and select Live Template.
Specify your Live Template and DEFINE CONTEXT.
In my case writing mtodo and pressing enter will result in:
// TODO myName
You can even use variables. Write in your Template text e.g. $DATE$ and $TIME$
// TODO myName $DATE$ $TIME$
Click on Edit variables button and assign to each variable (defined by dollar sign) and expression (predefined function).
Now mtodo will result in
// TODO myName 13.10.2015 15:39
Predefined functions could be found here. The example was created using IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP.
For those of you who have taken Postfix completion for Live templates, it is worth mentioning they are different. from not-choosing pretty good answers from #JB Niznet and #vitfo, I guess that's the case for OP writer. The document, here, says:
Postfix code completion is similar to live templates, it transforms the current expression without selecting it. For example, you can type .if after an expression to invoke the corresponding postfix completion and wrap the expression with an if statement.
You can check out a list of postfix completions:
Open the Preferences window
Click on Editor -> General -> Postfix completion
By default, there is no JAVA group in this setting page.
However, these default settings distribute on each feature group. For example, iterations:
IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2.4 (Ultimate Edition)