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Asked: 2026-05-29T12:34:25+00:00

I was using vim for a while (I know there is a intellij vim

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I was using vim for a while (I know there is a intellij vim plugin), and I am curious what the built in IntelliJ text navigations exist?

  1. How can I open up live templates to create a template?
  2. How can I see a list of templates that exist that start with ‘tr’
  3. How to perform a global search and search in current document? (and then go to next)
  4. How to see the return type of a method?

I appreciated the guidance!

P.S Any cool text navigation shortucts you want to share?

PPS Can you pull the unit testing window out of the editor and move it to another monitor?

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I am on a Mac

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  1. Editorial Team

    Re PPS: Yes; click on the gear cog/settings in the upper-right, undock it.

    It doesn’t do what I want it to, which is act as a completely independent window, however, which is a PITA. You can always get back to it with CMD+4.

    Not sure what qualifies as “cool”, I use these a lot:

    • CMD+F12, quick outline
    • CMD+W, select block (widens on subsequent presses)
    • CMD+D, duplicates current line (or selection, including methods, etc.)
    • CTRL+], move caret to code block end (and CTRL-[)
    • SHIFT+RETURN, open new line below current and move cursor
    • CMD+-,CMD+= collapse, expand region, SHIFT+those does whole buffer.
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