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MASTERING PYCHARM

You're reading from   MASTERING PYCHARM Use PyCharm with fluid efficiency to write idiomatic python code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783551316
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nafiul Islam Nafiul Islam
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Finding shortcuts

Now you can easily search for the keyboard shortcut that you're looking for in the find bar, for example, if we want Find Action…, we can search for it like this:

Finding shortcuts

However, you can also do just the reverse by inputting the shortcut to find out what it's called (this is incredibly useful when you're trying to explain what you're doing to someone else on another platform with a different set of default keyboard shortcuts).

Finding shortcuts

So, if we wanted to find what Alt + Q does, we would have done this:

Finding shortcuts

At this point, I feel that it would be prudent to note that Mac shortcuts have special symbols in them, while Windows/Linux don't (you can skip the next page). When I was first using Mac with PyCharm, I found this quite perplexing because other than the command key (), there were no other symbols on my Mac's keyboard. These characters are explained in the bottom-right corner of the Default Keymap Reference for Mac (which is a PDF).

However, if you...

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