Friday, February 5, 2010

Win + key shortcuts in IntelliJ

I always thought it’s not possible to assign Win + key shortcuts in IntelliJ. The reason was that if you press Win + key in shortcut editor, you see something like this:
It looks very much like IntelliJ cannot use this kind of shortcuts. Turns out it can!
The trick is to use Win button as a first key-stroke and key as a second one. Surprisingly enough it works when Win + key are pressed simultaneously.
(In the above picture I assign Win + S shortcut to split editor. I love left-handed shortcuts which easy to use :))
I’ve only tried it in Windows XP. Would be nice if it also works in Vista and Windows 7.

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