What is the keymap for navigating to the matching brace in IntelliJ IDEA?
public void blah() {|
...
}
If | is my cursor, I would like to jump to the closing brace with this keymap.
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Similar: stackoverflow.com/q/5240995/20770
– cdeszaq
I took the liberty of changing "bracket" to "brace" because this is what your example shows - and the accepted answer doesn't work for brackets
– Andrew Spencer
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As an alternative to Ctrl+} and Ctrl+{ you can by default use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+9 and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+8 respectively. I haven't even tried to remember that yet. ;)
Also in Settings -> (IDE Settings ->) Keymap -> Editor Actions there's an entry called "Move Caret to Matched Brace" that doesn't have a default key mapping. I mapped it to Ctrl+< because the key combination was unmapped and the keys are close to each other on a german keyboard.
This applies to IDEA 12.
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On some keyboards, including Swedish ones, it's not practical to use Ctrl-} or Ctrl-{. The best approach I've found under those circumstances is to double-click the bracket in view, which highlights everything between the brackets, then use left-arrow or right-arrow to move to the appropriate end of the highlighted region.
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Ctrl+} and Ctrl+{ only moves the cursor to the closes corresponding brace that embraces ( with its counterpart) the place where you called the shortcut.
Ctrl+Shift+} and Ctrl+Shift+{ moves the cursor to the same brace as the first mentioned shortcut and highlights all the area between start point and the result brace.
Ctrl+Shift+M moves the cursor to the opposite or nearest embracing brace or bracket of any sort ( ), { }, < >, [ ].
The last one can be changed in the settings.
