IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3 Help

Running Console

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Introduction

The consoles built in IntelliJ IDEA completely correspond to the shell consoles.

Besides the standard functionality, these consoles feature:

  • Code completion.

  • Syntax check with inspections.

  • Automated insertion of paired brackets, quotes and braces.

  • Scrolling through the history of commands using the arrow keys.

  • Quick documentation lookup Ctrl+Q

Launching console

To launch an interactive console

  • On the main menu, choose any console-related command from the Tools menu.

Last modified: 1 February 2019

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