Completing Statements
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Completing statements
The Smart Enter completion enables you to create syntactically correct code constructs.
To automatically complete a statement, follow these steps:
Examples
Completing a method declaration
Start typing a method declaration, and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter after the opening parenthesis:
This will create the entire construct of a method, the caret resting inside the method body:
Completing code constructs
Start typing a code construct:
After pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter, the construct is completed, and the caret is placed at the next editing position:
Automatic encapsulation
IntelliJ IDEA automatically encapsulates a method call, when you directly type a new method call next to it. For example, consider the following code:
|"test"
Note the caret that rests just before the opening quote. Then type the method call.
When println
gets the focus in the suggestion list, select it with Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
System.out.println("test");