Before my last post, I should have made this post. So let us time shift a bit . . .

When I fired up Intellij on Monday, it told me that there are only 6 days left of my trial. Uh-oh. And we were told that our free license from No Fluff would take a week or two before getting to us. I was enjoying my time too much!!

On Tuesday morning, I read the “5 days left . .” on the startup window and began to lament that my demo was really over, and that my license key wouldn’t be showing up for a while. An hour later, I got an email from JetBrains – with my license key!! They saved the day!!

So now I’m licensed — for a year. It’s a great product, too. I think Intellij is a lot like Emacs — or, at least, it has that feel. Eclipse has never had that feel for me. So, in that spirit, here is my first Intellij IDEA cheatsheet. These all work in Emacs mode:

Shift-Ctrl-i -> Get Definition (do it while on top of an object or a method call)

Ctrl-Alt-space -> Complete by object name in classpath

Ctrl-F12 -> Display & Navigate to methods in a class.

F12 -> return to last Tool Window

Ctrl-Shift-- -> Undo

Esc -> goto editor from tool window