IntelliJ IDEA: Eclipse key bindings on OSX
This post is part of the archive. It was written years ago, so some of the tools, versions and links may be outdated.
With the latest release of IntelliJ IDEA 12 I decided to give it a try. As a heavy eclipse user it’s much easier for me to use the eclipse key map. Stupidly in the eclipse key map that ships with IntelliJ the ctrl-key is used instead of the cmd-key. Windows style copy and paste on the mac sucks.
Luckily Ian run into this issue before and distibuted his key map on github.
For the “go to declaration” there is a cmd + Click key binding that I use a lot in eclipse. Ian didn’t changed this key binding from ctrl to cmd. I forked his code and added this binding.
The next thing I run into was that the right click in a context menu was fishy. I found this entry on Stackoverflow to fix the problem.
I also added or changed the following keys:
Move Caret to Line End: from ctr + -> to cmd + ->
Move Caret to Line End with Selection:
Move Caret to Line Start from ctr + -> to cmd + ->
Move Caret to Line Start with Selection: ctr + < - to cmd + <- Move Caret to Next Word: from cmd + -> to alt + ->
Move Caret to Next Word with Selection: remove shift + alt + ->
Move Caret to Previous Word: cmd + < - to alt + <- Move Caret to Previous Word with Selection: remove shift + alt + <- Navigate Back: from + <- to alt + cmd + <- Navigate Forward: from + -> to alt + cmd + ->Editor Tabs Next Tab: removed alt+cmd< - Editor Tabs Previous Tab: removed alt+cmd->
Active Tool Window, Resize, Strech to right: remove shift + cmd + ->
Active Tool Window, Resize, Strech to left: shift + cmd + < -
You can find my forked version of the keymap with all the changes in my github repo.