When in the file structure popup window, the default key bindings for moving up/down are ↑ and ↓. I prefer to use ⌃P and ⌃N for navigation. Is there any way to change the default settings?
Thanks.
It seems this is not possible at the moment. You may want to vote for the relevant issues 1 and 2.
A workaround (sort of) may be to use the speed search, where you just type a few of the characters of the element you want to navigate to.
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Is it possible to use J and K when choosing a suggested auto-completion item? See the image below: I'd like to, maybe hold ALT or SHIFT (or in some other way differentiate between moving and typing), and use J and K to select the proper suggestion.
Is anything similar also available for moving around the menus (in Project view etc.)?
I was able to make this work by creating a shortcut ALT+J mapped to the Down key and ALT+K to the Up key.
You can move up and down in the popup without needing to move your hand away from HJKL to the arrow keys.
This also works in the Find in path window, though it does not work in the navigation menu.
Update: For Alt + K to work in the Find window since the version 2020+, one has to disable mnemonics in Settings, under Appearance & Behaviour -> Appearance -> Disable mnemonics in controls.
#Rok Povsic's solution is great and I used it a bit, but in some pop up menus like Intention actions, refactoring menu or usages the trick won't work.
So I used this Power Toys program from Microsoft to remap the Alt+J, Alt+K, Alt+H, Alt+L to arrow keys at windows level and now this works great everywhere around the IDE.
You can even specify only the app in which you want to override this shortcuts. For example for rider it will be "rider64.exe". You can find the name of the app you want to use in task manager under "Details".
I'm using Intellij IDEA 2017.1.4 (Community Edition). How do I dismiss the file structure view (Navigate > File Structure)? I've been hitting the esc with no results; it stays there until I either choose an item in the list or click elsewhere with my mouse pointer (which is very inconvenient to me).
My problem was due to the esc being used as primary keyboard shortcut for a few other keyboard shortcuts. I'm using Emacs keybindings and I think they were set there by default. The escape function was mapped to esc+esc, which I already knew. To resolve this issue, I looked for all shortcuts whose primary key was esc, and remove that particular binding (or replaced them with something I'm more comfortable with). I also updated the mapping of escape to only use single key press.
I actually also set another binding to the escape functionality, ctrl+G, which also doesn't work to dismiss the file structure view. I think within the context of file structure view, the IDE follows a slightly different set of keybindings so no matter what I map to the escape functionality, it will only honor the single key press of esc.
I have the following keymap.cson file to config my Atom editor:
'body':
'ctrl-shift-cmd-left': 'window:focus-pane-on-left'
Only when I run this command, the current text is selected. Which without the alt key held, would make sense as a highlighting command.
However, is I bind a key command which I think most likely doesn't have a competing action, say alt-cmd-;, it seems to be registered into the list of key commands in Settings/Keybindings, yet again no window focus is happening.
Edit:
I now realize that pane and not window may be the relevant term for what I want. Still, searching the Key Bindings for pane focus switching didn't yield anything obvious. Surely, there must be a simple way to select through files in the Project area while editing.
Although this answer doesn't match the title of the question, based on your edit I think that tree-view:toggle-focus is what you're looking for.
Please try using Ctrl + 0.
And, if you use Nuclide (related to React), please try disabling it to check the difference.
In Eclipse I could hit Ctrl+O and get a popup which I could use to get an overview of everything in the current class, pick an entry, and jump to it.
In idea, there is Alt+7, but I have a few issues with it. First, the keyboard doesn't seem to put its focus there. I have to take my hand off the keyboard and use the mouse to place the focus on the Structure dock.
I also don't like how it's taking up real estate. I don't want to change how things are laid out if I want to see the structure. I would like a more non-invasive popup, and handier and snappier.
Is there another feature that gives me quick access in the form of a popup preferably, like Ctrl+O provides in Eclipse?
Another nice feature would be to be able to use the J and K keys to move up and down the selection, instead of having to use the cursor keys. I'm using IdeaVim, so the normal workflow when editing files, is that both hands stay in a touch-type position. It would be nice if I can use the various navigation features also using vim keys...
Perhaps there is a way to enable this, that I haven't discovered yet?
IntelliJ equivalent of Eclipse's CTRL+O is CTRL+F12 (⌘+F12 on Mac), which will give you more or less the same pop-up as in Eclipse. But I'm not sure if it can be navigated using j and k keys.
More details can be found in the IntelliJ help.
In IntelliJ 12, how do I make the popup stop...popping up when I hold Ctrl while hovering over a field/method with the mouse? (see picture)
That is the "Brief Info" action (or at least that is what it is called in the Keymap reference.) To the best of my knowledge (i.e. 10+ years of daily IDEA use including all beta/EAP builds), there is no way to turn it off. Searching the settings for either "Brief Info" or "Info" does not show any pertinent setting. Likewise, searching key mappings for the same does not reveal a mapping. In fact in the keymap settings, you can only map mouse clicks, not mouse pointing (i.e. hovering). You can submit a feature request asking for a setting to disable this feature.
Just put of curiosity, why do you want to disable it? I guess I would never see a case where one would Ctrl+MousePoint unless they wanted to see this. The only case I can think of would be if you disliked it popping up when you go to Ctrl+Click on a symbol. If it is the latter, note that you can use Ctrl+B in place of Ctrl+MousePoint
Try turning off the "autopop" options under /Settings/IDE Settings/Editor/Code Completion.