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Marsmensch
Marsmensch

Reputation: 1113

How to move out of auto-completed brackets in IntelliJ IDEA (without using the arrow keys)?

I recently switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA, and found myself wondering how to move the cursor out of a pair of auto-completed brackets.

In Eclipse after I finished typing in a pair of brackets, pressing tab brings me out of the brackets. How can I do the same thing without using the arrow keys?

Many thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 111

Views: 30613

Answers (10)

CrazyCoder
CrazyCoder

Reputation: 402235

IDEA doesn't have such feature yet. The closest equivalent is the Complete Current Statement editor action (Ctrl+Shift+Enter).

UPDATE

Initial implementation for this feature is available in 2018.2 EAP version - press Tab to jump out.

It works more like in MS Visual Studio - without visual indication of tab 'exit' position. For now, it should work in Java, SQL, Python and some other files. It will take some time for other languages to catch up - some language-specific code changes are required.

The feature is disabled by default, you can enable it in

Settings -> Editor -> General -> Smart Keys -> Jump outside closing bracket/quote with Tab

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Upvotes: 97

Terefe
Terefe

Reputation: 309

If you decide to move back to Eclipse and use PyDev this feature by default is disabled, First Switch to PyDev Perspective and you can enable it by going under Preferences>PyDev>Editor>Typing>Enable link on Automatic parenthesis or literals closing

Upvotes: 0

Violin
Violin

Reputation: 31

Such key is called "End".

You can assign any unused shortcut to "Move Caret to Line End" action in "Settings/Preferences | Keymap".

P.S. You can use Ctrl+Shift+Enter to complete your statement (in your case it will place caret at the end of line and will add ";" there) -- action called "Complete Current Statement" and shortcut can be checked/changed in a same way as described earlier.

Upvotes: 3

gadolf
gadolf

Reputation: 1065

I set these setting:

1) I added Semicolon shortcut to Complete Current Statement:

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Instead of using for loop command, I using fori command (because for command needs semicolon character):

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2) I added Alt+Semicolon shortcut to Move Caret to Code Block End:

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So when I inside the loop, by pressing Alt+Semicolon jumping end of the bracket, by pressing Semicolon I jumping out the bracket subsequently.

by adding these shortcuts, the speed of coding will be faster.

Upvotes: 3

Moritz
Moritz

Reputation: 10352

Intellij supports the ctrl+shift+m shortcut that jumps to the end of the block:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.2/navigating-to-braces.html

Upvotes: 3

Cartesian Theater
Cartesian Theater

Reputation: 1970

I went to preferences->Keymap and set a shortcut for "Move Caret to Line End" to Shift-Space. It takes me to the end of the current line I am on without adding anything, if that's what you want.

Upvotes: 6

user2350459
user2350459

Reputation: 351

You can do this by pressing the closing symbol that you would've pressed otherwise, but was auto completed. For example, if you have just typed the f below, you would press shift and 0 (or closing parenthesis), and it will move your cursor outside of the parenthesis.

String asdf = "hello world";
System.out.println(asdf);

Upvotes: 8

lenkite
lenkite

Reputation: 1102

Not currently supported by Intellij. There is an open feature request on this at http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-74666. Extra votes would be nice.

Upvotes: 3

dspies
dspies

Reputation: 1543

Ctrl + Shift + Enter does not seem to work for me in IDEA 12.1.4, but I found the closest feature to what I was looking for was Shift + Enter. This completes the line, creates a new line below the current line and moves the cursor to it.

Upvotes: 11

Murphy Randle
Murphy Randle

Reputation: 816

It's not quite what you're looking for, but you can type the character you are trying to move outside of (a closing paren, for example) and that should pop you outside of the auto-completed character.

Not ideal, but functional as far as I've tested it.

Upvotes: 2

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