Chapter 2. Understanding the Keymap
The keymap is one of the most powerful features that PyCharm has to offer. It allows you to set your keyboard shortcuts and find the keyboard shortcuts you've seen other people use. It also allows you to use a familiar set of keyboard shortcuts that you're used to such as Eclipse and Emacs. This chapter is very much a standalone chapter, and if you understand how keymaps work, you're well on your way to using the most powerful features that PyCharm has to offer with ease.
In this chapter, we are going to go over the following topics:
- Different keymaps: PyCharm assumes that you might have had prior experience with a separate IDE or editor, so you can quickly adapt PyCharm to predetermined keyboard shortcuts.
- Finding shortcuts: A lot of times, you will see other people using keyboard shortcuts, but you won't know what they're called. This section will remedy that.
- Setting shortcuts: We will customize our own keyboard and mouse...
