Completing Statements

On this page:

• Completing statements
• Examples
  • Completing a method declaration
  • Completing code constructs
  • Automatic encapsulation

Completing statements

The Smart Enter completion enables you to create syntactically correct code constructs.

Examples

Completing a method declaration

Start typing a method declaration, and press ⇧⌘⏎⇧⌘⏎⇧⌘⏎^ ⇧ Enter^ ⇧ 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 ⇧⌘⏎⇧⌘⏎⇧⌘⏎^ ⇧ Enter^ ⇧ 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 ⇧⌘⏎⇧⌘⏎⇧⌘⏎^ ⇧ Enter^ ⇧ Enter.

System.out.println("test");