Summary and shortcuts
Everything we covered in this tutorial including help links and shortcuts.
Summary
IntelliJ IDEA’s terminal window is a powerful and helpful tool for developers. It keeps our attention in the same tools which reduces context switching. It makes it easy for us to share things between the editor and the command line. The terminal is integrated allowing us to easily move from the project code to the terminal and back again, and it also can show us alternative ways of doing the same thing, using the IDE’s version of the command line tool.
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Shortcuts Used
Here are some of the shortcuts that we used and some additional ones that you can try out.
| Name | macOS Shortcut | Windows Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Add a new file in the Project Window | ⌘N | Alt+Insert |
| Open the Search everywhere dialog | ⇧⇧ | Shift+Shift |
| Open a second terminal tab | ⌘T | Ctrl+Shift+T |
| Move between the different tabs | ⌘⇧ or ⌘⇧ | Alt+← or Alt+→ |
| Switch between splits | ⌥⇥ | Ctrl+Tab |
| Close splits | ⌘W | Ctrl+F4 |
| Open the terminal window | ⌥F12 | Alt+F12 |