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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 F1, ⌃J, ⌃Button2 Click, F1, ⌃J or ⌃Button2 Click⌃J, ⌃Button2 Click, ⌃J or ⌃Button2 Click⌥Button2 Click, F2, ⌥Button2 Click or F2^ Q, ⌃Q or ⌃Q^ Q, ⌥ Button2 Click, ⌃Q, ⌥Button2 Click, ⌃Q or ⌥Button2 Click

Launching console

To launch an interactive console
  • On the main menu, choose any console-related command from the Tools menu .

See Also

Language and Framework-Specific Guidelines: