Beginning IntelliJ IDEA: Integrated Development Environment for Java Programming

© Ted Hagos 2022

T. HagosBeginning IntelliJ IDEAhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7446-0_5

5. Code Navigation and Generation

Ted Hagos¹  

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Makati, Philippines

 

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• How to use the search everywhere feature in IntelliJ

• How to get to any IDE action using keyboard shortcuts

• How to look for files without hunting and pecking

• How to generate boilerplate codes

Have you met anyone who swears by Vim as the best editor of all? You have? Do you know why they say that? One of the reasons, I think, is because with Vim, you don’t use the mouse to navigate. It’s all keyboard. Your hands will never leave the keyboard — and for some people, this gets them in a state of flow.

You can do something like that with IntelliJ. If you’d ...