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• 2014.02.01 - Andrew Brookins - An Epic Review of PyCharm 3 from a Vim User’s Perspective
  • TODO: Summarize the tips in this.

The best sequence to learn shortcuts in

• Learn "Shift-Shift" to look up the shortcut to do something.

How to do various things in PyCharm

General appearance / colors

• To switch between the night theme and day theme, hit Ctrl+ ` , then '5' to select the 'Look and Feel' option, and then choose either '1' for Darcula (the night theme) or '2' or '3' for either the IntelliJ day theme or a Windows day theme (respectively).

Git

• Add a file to git when you've selected it in the Project sidebar: ctrl+alt+a
• View git blame: Press Shift twice (quickly), then type out 'Annotate' and select that option.

Navigation

• Switch tabs
  • alt+left and alt+right
  • Alternatively, hold down ctrl+tab and use the arrow keys to choose what you want to navigate to.
• Close a tab: ctrl + F4

Cursors

• create multiple cursors in adjacent rows: (IDK how to do this yet)

Copy

• copy row at cursor: (IDK how to do it but I've seen Cody do it.)

Modify

• Format code: ctrl+alt+l (the lowercase letter "L")
• Find and replace: ctrl+r

How to have your windows set up

• 2016.10.23 - I'm finding that I really like having two windows open side-by-side, where one pane is for the actual code and the other pane is for the tests.
  • Right-click and select 'Split vertically'.
  • Also, I'm finding that I like zooming the code out in each pane so that I can see the entire function at once.

Find

• Find misc. useful information, like the keyboard combination for a particular command: shift-shift.
• Find and replace: ctrl+r

Changes I've made to my PyCharm settings

Settings

• Editor
  • General
    • Smart Keys
      • Enable 'Surround selection on typing quote or brace'
    • Mouse
      • Enabled 'Change font size (Zoom) with Ctrl+Mouse Wheel.'

• Allocate more memory to PyCharm: Help→Edit Custom VM→Increase the xmx setting.
  • https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/04/configuring-intellij-idea-vm-options/
    
    • A MI: Don't make the value too big.
  • You can also find this file in C:\Users\Nathan\.PyCharm2016.2\pycharm.exe.vmoptions

Shortcuts

• I reassigned 'Rename' to Ctrl+Backquote, which had been set to 'Quick Scheme Switch', and I reassigned that command to Shift+F6, which had been the combo for Rename.
• Ctrl+Shift+x to 'Run'
• Alt+a to 'Select Line at Caret'
• Alt+Shift+w to 'Close Active Tab'

Plugins

• Markdown support
  • Create a markdown file ("test.md").
  • You should see an alert saying something like "PyCharm has plugins enabling markdown support." With a button that says "Install".
  • Restart PyCharm.