Simply place caret at the line you want out of your project and push Cmd + Y. No need to get your hands off of keyboard to reach for the mouse, or use extra shortcuts to select a line + Backspace. They will help you more than you can imagine, others even more.Īnother no-brainer very useful. Please use line comments and documentation blocks as much as possible. I don’t think I can stress the importance of documentation in code. Read more about it here on his blog post. If you place it above a method, the block will be populated with argument params, which can be tremendously useful.ĮDIT: Denis Zhdanov of JetBrains pointed out a great new feature shipped as of v12, “Fix Doc Comment”. Voila, IDEA will automagically create a documentation block for you. After you create a member, go one line above it and type /** followed by a press on the Enter key. Not quite a keyboard shortcut, this one is more of a code completion helper. Refer to the figure below for comparison.ģ. While line commenting is quicker, here you can be much more precise and more creative with comments. Similar to line commenting, this shortcut will surround the current selection. (Un)Comment selection: Shift + Control + / A good thing to know is that caret will move to the next line automatically, allowing multiple lines to be commented out at once.Ģ. Even cooler, the editor will know how to uncomment lines, even when commented out manually. Instead of going to the beginning of line and manually typing //, Cmd+L will do that for us. Transforming the current line into comment is essential in bug tracking. Features that could easily boost my productivity in a piece of software I spend so much time with. Visiting other options opened my eyes for new features to look for. Weeks, or even months later, I came back to IDEA, realizing that it has virtually all features found elsewhere, and it felt a bit more robust. Even more so, I was so close to ditching IDEA (or rather Web Storm) for Sublime Text 2 due to the cool features available through its plugin mechanism. All impressed me with their own unique features. In 2012 I spent quite some time giving other IDEs a chance. I can’t say I’m a shortcut junky, but knowing a few make my life a whole lot easier. Another way to boost productivity is learning how to use the assets we already own, such as IntelliJ IDEA. When we need to get productive, we often invest money in new gadgets, software, or even a new computer.

Use intellij key map for pycharm