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Lisa
Lisa

Reputation: 4436

Pycharm: How to focus on Editor when hit a debug point

I am using a mac, with Pycharm version 2018.2.4 Community version.

When I run a debugging session using the debugger and hit a debug point, I have to click on my editor using my mouse to be able to type code on the editor. If I don't do this and hit my keyboard directly, Mac will complain with some "bing" sound, signaling the keyboard input is not valid to any application (my opinion).

How to make my Pycharm auto focus on the editor when hitting the debug point? Or at least focus on the debugger so that I can hit ESC to focus on the editor?

I have selected "Focus application on breakpoint" in the setting. enter image description here

Upvotes: 11

Views: 808

Answers (2)

sun_jara
sun_jara

Reputation: 1825

There is a bug reported on PyCharm for the same. Here is the link to the issue. The bug is reported for version 2018.2 and still not fixed.

Upvotes: 0

Chris Larson
Chris Larson

Reputation: 1724

This is how it should work:

In Preferences, type Focus application on breakpoint into the search bar and be sure it is toggled on.

Apply that setting and exit Preferences.

In your debugger, when you hit a breakpoint, hit the escape key, and your cursor should be blinking in your editor.

For me, I had to disable the setting, apply, re-enable the setting and re-apply once more.

It now behaves as stated above.

Upvotes: 1

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