PyCharm Shortcuts

Last updated: January 18, 2021

These are my PyCharm keyboard shortcuts. Some are customized to map to analogs in Sublime Text; for custom shortcuts I’ve provided the name of the command.

See also this official list of “keyboard shortcuts you cannot miss”.

Table of contents

• Navigation
• Editing code
• Folding & custom regions
• Running
• Testing
• Debugging
• Git integration
• JIRA integration

Navigation

• Open “Run” tab: cmd-4
• Open “Debug” tab: cmd-5
• Navigate from “Run” panel (or other panels) back to main editor window: esc
• Quickly toggling between two open files: ctrl-backtick (the “`” character; this activates “Switcher” for a split second)
• Quickly open a file: cmd-t
• Jump to class/method (any symbol, really): cmd-shift-r
• Run command: cmd-shift-p
• Show definition of symbol under cursor: cmd-y

• Jump to a method in the currently open file (Navigate > File Structure): cmd-r

  

  • Note that you can type to filter this list

• Navigate recently open files and other panels: cmd-e

  

• Navigate to anything: double-press shift

Editing code

• Cyclic expand word (auto-completes anything): alt-/

Folding & custom regions

• Use # region Description here and # endregion to denote regions in large files
• Jump to custom region: cmd-alt-. (this shows a pop-up list of all the custom regions in the current file)
• Fold custom region under cursor: cmd-.
• Fold method under cursor: cmd-- (that’s command-minus)
• Unfold method under cursor: cmd-+

Running

• “Run…” quick run modal: ctrl-alt-r
  • Then enter to run
  • Or shift+enter to debug

Testing

• Run test method/class under cursor: ctrl-shift-r
• Debug test method/class under cursor: ctrl-shift-d

Debugging

• Add breakpoint: cmd-\
• Evaluate selected code: cmd-;
• Quick evaluate selected code: cmd-shift-;

Git integration

• ctrl-v brings up the VCS menu, but I’ve overridden this with my own custom quick list

  

• When using the commit, push, etc. dialogs, ctrl-enter will execute the action from the keyboard.

• I’ve mapped cmd-ctrl-shift-↑ and cmd-ctrl-shift-↓ to Next/Previous Change so I can quickly navigate between changes when using the various diff views.

• Using the “Compare with the Same Repository Version” menu item allows you to diff uncommitted changes for the open file.

  • This compares with what’s in HEAD vs. “Compare with the latest repository version”, which compares with what the latest version of the file is on the remote
  • To revert chunks in the diff view, click the >> (“accept” button) in the gutter.

• You can make JIRA issue numbers in git commit messages hyperlinks. Search for “JIRA” in the preferences to find where to do this.

JIRA integration

• See Tasks and contexts documentation