IntelliJ IDEA Plugin of the Week: Describe Key
As I mentioned in my first IntelliJ IDEA Tip post, I’ll be talking about the many plugins that I use — I’m something of a plugin maniac. Hopefully you’ll give them a try and find them as useful as I do.
The Describe Key Plugin
Written by Vincent Mallet, today’s plugin is one that does one little thing, but does it extremely well: tell you what a specific keystroke or key sequence does.
You can bring up the Describe Key plugin through the menu:
Or use its default shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+K. When you bring it up, you’ll see the dialog:
And you can start trying out keystrokes, in this case I hit Ctrl+Shift+S, the default shortcut for Structural Search. This dialog should look familiar, it’s pretty much the same one that’s used in the Keymap settings page. A nice addition is the ability to browse and search all actions that you could attach to a shortcut by clicking on the Browse button:
While you could do this from IDEA’s built-in Keymaps settings page, using the Describe Key plugin is a much quicker way to do it. Thanks Vince for a nice little plugin!
