I always want to discard my mouse and function keys. In Sublime Text using Ctrl+0 can focus the sidebar, and using Emacs-like Ctrl+p and Ctrl+n can navigate vertically. However when I try to list the files under a folder, I have to use Right key to do that. Does anyone know the keybinding for that in the QWERTY layout?
Currently there is no way to do that, side bar is completely un customizable besides the visual tweaks.
There is an open feature request for sidebar API, I can't quite understand why this for so long requested feature is still not implemented, at least some basic functionality, but we'll have to wait to get our hands on this part of the editor.
Another thing that is ridiculous for keyboard freaks like us is that on Mac you can't open the context menu on any of the files or folders in the sidebar as you don't have the key like on windows/linux and there's no tweaks for that too.
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I want to use search, undo, delete etc. using keyboard in my main editor window and NEVER on my project window.
But once I click file in the project window, I must now do second click into the editor, otherwise my keyboard will start wreaking havoc in the filesystem.
Please tell me there is an intelligent way to disable this!
Could not find it myself, mostly because I don't know how to even name this behaviour.
Hi I have to make a lot of searches in InteliJ and I want navigate between findings of searched text and code preview of specific file.
I tried to search it on web, and also combination of shortcuts like tab, ctrl+tab and many more but nothing work.. Do you know how to switch between those two windows?
right now I have to click it with mouse to focus on one of the windows.
The code preview window is intended to be used as exactly that - a preview, not a UI to be used for complex editing operations. If you need to do anything with the search results, use the "Open in Find Window" button to open the toolwindow with the results. After that, you can use for example Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down to navigate between the occurrences, or other keyboard shortcut to switch between the toolwindow and the editor.
In IntelliJ, there are some underlined numbers on the side menus :
1: Project
7: Structure
Like below :
So there is probably a keyboard shortcut which allows to navigate from one view to another by just entering the view number.
I tried the different digits with Ctrl, Ctrl+Shift, Ctrl+Alt etc but could not find the right shortcut.
How can I easily navigate between those views?
The shortcut is Alt + [number]
ps. There's a plugin force-shortcuts if you wanna replace your mouse click actions with shortcuts (https://github.com/treytrahin/force-shortcuts-intellij-plugin). It's super annoying but you learn really fast. And by the way here are such plugins to most editors and IDEs.
ALT+F1 opens a window where you can choose one of the views by pressing the corresponding number.
Info: It actually opens the selected file in the selected view - which is not that bad maybe - but not 100% what you want?
Also there are cool things like pressing C to open a file chosen in Project Explorer directly in Explorer for example.
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.
Whilst fiddling recently with Ulysses 2.0 - "The definitive creative writing package", I was struck by how effective the fullscreen/console mode was at focusing my mind on actually getting words on the page.
Are there any code editors that include a similar function? Or even a hack that allows code highlighting in Ulysees?
Preferably, for me, OSX, but feel free to list alternatives for others.
Any console based editor (vim, emacs, nano, ...) can be used in full screen mode, as long as the terminal in which it is run supports it. And I'd wager that most or all do. Usually this functionality is bound to F11 or Alt+Enter.
MacVim has a fullscreen mode: :set fullscreen, :help fullscreen, and ⇧⌘F.
Visual Studio has a fullscreen mode via pressing Shift+Alt+Enter.
Notepad++ has fullscreen mode by pressing F11 (or f12 i can't decide).
I use Think from Freeverse. It's a free utility that highlights your current app and simply darkens everything else, enabling you to focus on your document.
You can use it with your favorite editor. If you use Eclipse, you can double click the editor tab to maximize it, collapsing all other views. You can also customize the colors (if you prefer white text on dark background). It's not quite the same, but not bad.
This is going to end up a long list!
I use Textpad as my text editor when not using Visual Studio - http://www.textpad.com - and it has a fullscreen mode.