I kind of forgot about it until on the 20th of June someone again commented how nice it would be to have this in the official Make the fork available through the Jetbrains plugin repository.įor unknown reasons athiele stopped to respond to issues at the end of 2016 and we were again in the same situation of having no I got notified on this one specific issue that suggested to Since then I had an eye on the issue list of the fork and especially Key Promoter is broken and I pointed him to the fork. In Januar 2017 I helped someone who asked why the original See how often you missed a particular shortcut. He fixed the code and implemented an additional tool-window where you could His name is unknown to me but he runs under the GitHub profileĪthiele. The community was left with a Key Promoter that did not work on recentĪnother user stepped in and forked the original code. Unfortunately, in 2012 Dmitry stopped working on the plugin and even with the awesome IntelliJ plugin API we have, a pluginĭoes not survive several years without updates. And by popular I mean about 250.000-downloads-popular. One of the plugin-contests that were still held by IntelliJ back in 2006.Īs small and simple this plugin was as popular it became in the community. Why not giving the user a popup-tip every time he clicks something inside IDEA thatĬould have been done with a key combination? That someone was Dmitry KashinĪnd although I can only try to reconstruct the events, I believe he implemented the original Key Promoter plugin for Shortcuts and consulting the KeyMap Reference every time Nevertheless, especially new users find it hard to do this right from the start and the reason is simple: you need to remember a lot of One of the first things you hear from experienced IDEA users is that you should throw your mouse in the trash.Īs hard as it at first seems, IntelliJ IDEA is tailored to keep your hands on the keyboard and off the mouse. The documentation can be found here and if you have any questions,

If you like to try it out, you can install it directly through IDEA by going to Settings, Plugins, Browse repository.

This is the story of how the Key Promoter X was born,Ī small plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that helps you to learn shortcuts from mouse clicks.

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