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Java Local Development Environments Exploring Your IDE Creating Your First Project

on windows highlighting getProperties() method and hitting f1 opens up an online help system is this configurable?

If I hit f1 on my installation which is based on windows 7, jdk1.8.0.45, intellij IDEA 14.1.3, it opens up an online help page

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/using-help-topics.html

instead of the inbuilt help functions on the video. if I hit ctrl-q though I get the inbuilt help. How do you customize this?

4 Answers

Got it sorted for Windows:

  1. Goto File/Settings
  2. Select Keymap (second option in left column)
  3. in search box enter "quick"
  4. right click "Quick Documentation"
  5. select "Add Keyboard Shortcut"
  6. press F1 and accept

note: F1 is default assigned to the Help; there will be a couple pop ups for removing this assignment.

Hope this help. -Phillip

On my macbook the F1 key is also used for dimming down my screen...

Do you guys have any suggestions on which shortcut i can set this function to, without ruining anything else ?

Tim Strand
Tim Strand
22,458 Points

it also works by pressing Ctrl + Q if you want to leave F1 launching IntelliJ doc

Craig Dennis
STAFF
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Daniel BjΓΈrkholm !

If you press the fn key and then F1 it'll work.

Perfect, Thanks!

And i guess that works for all the F commands ;)