IntelliJ IDEA Hotkeys

This page lists 249 keyboard shortcuts for IntelliJ IDEA, organized across 11 categories covering everything from compiling and debugging to VCS and refactoring. It serves as a reference you can scan while building habits, not a tutorial.

Start with REMEMBER THESE SHORTCUTS, which is curated for daily use, then work through NAVIGATION and EDITING. Once those feel natural, REFACTORING and SEARCH / REPLACE will save you the most time in real coding sessions.

Yes. The page shows both macOS and Windows bindings side by side. Most actions share the same logic but swap Cmd for Ctrl and sometimes remap a modifier entirely, so it is worth checking your specific OS column rather than assuming they match.

LIVE TEMPLATES, USAGE SEARCH, and COMPILE AND RUN tend to be looked up rather than memorized, since the actions they cover are either triggered contextually or used less frequently. DEBUGGING shortcuts are worth learning if you spend time in the debugger, but casual users can treat that section as a reference too.