What is the shortcut in IntelliJ IDEA to find method / functions?

Question

I know that Ctrl + N is to find classes and it is very useful. But what about methods?

Solution 1

Windows : ^ ctrl + F12

MacOS : ⌘ cmd + F12

Above commands will show the functions/methods in the current class.

Press ⇧ SHIFT TWO times if you want to search both class and method in the whole project.

Solution 2

ctrl + F12 (cmd + F12 on macOS) will show all members of the current class in a popup window and let you pick up one. It works exactly like the ctrl + o shortcut in eclipse, much faster than ctrl + alt + shift + n

Solution 3

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + N allows you to search for symbols, including methods.

The primary advantage of this more complicated keybinding is that is searches in all files, not just the current file as Ctrl + F12 does.

(And as always, for Mac you substitute Cmd for Ctrl for these keybindings.)

Solution 4

Android Studio on Mac

Command + Option + O

Opens up the Symbol lookup that you can jump to most of the methods/functions in your currently opened document.

Solution 5

Intellij IDEA 2017.3.4 - 2018.2 (Ultimate) on OSX

CMD + fn + F12

will show all members of the current class in a popup window, then you can search method in that class.

BUT, this answer is depends on your Keyboard setting. If your keyboard setting in

System Preferences > Keyboard > Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys

is selected, then the shortcut becomes

CMD + F12

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Comments

[Felipe]

Thank you very much! And how can I find this option on menus?

[Felipe]

I found it! It is under Go To menu. Easy!

[Felipe]

now I use mac. Do you know the equivalent shortcut for mac? Thanks!

[TJ Seabrooks]

Cmnd f12 on mac. I think this is a better answer.

[Felipe]

Did not work for me this option. Here in Mac is command + option + O

[Felipe]

Cmnd + ALT + O is also very useful on macs, to find symbols.

[Siddhartha]

hmmm. Cmd+Alt+O actually leads me to optimize imports. Cmd+alt+shift+n does it though..maybe it depends on the version, I'm on 12.1.4

[Felipe]

@Siddhartha, you need to change your config to fit Mac-style shortcuts. But everything changes.

[user674158]

It depends on the keymap you choose in "Preference->Keymap" . it seems you choose the "Mac OS X 10.5+"

[sealskej]

What's the name of action to show all members of the current class?

[Guillaume Husta]

In fact in Eclipse this is Ctrl+O (Quick Outline). Ctrl+Shift+O is for Organize imports.

[olafure]

If you type "sudo grep something /" you can also find anything, on your whole computer :)

[Vikas Gupta]

@olafure ,yes you can. "sudo grep something /" will search in whole computer and give lot of unnecessary results also will take lot of extra time. So, it's better to search something in IDE only.

[Xabs]

I believe that's his point... When looking for methods using the option that will even find text results in files outside of the project is a bit heavy-handed.

[blackbird014]

This is what I was looking for

[dudewad]

This is awesome because I was only finding answers for searching across the whole project, which is a waste of time when you're searching for a method like "init" or "destroy". Thank you!!

[dudewad]

While this answer is technically correct, it's what I've been trying to avoid since I don't want to search multiple files which might have the same method name. the Ctrl+F12 method below with like 3x as many upvotes is what should be marked as the correct answer...

[hBrent]

The results displayed using this key combination aren't restricted to the currently open document. For that, cmnd+f12 is what you want (per the answer by Daniel Dang and comment by Thomas).

[software.wikipedia]

Works on Intellij 15.x version for me. This should be the right answer.

[software.wikipedia]

Does not work on Intellij 15.x version for methods (brings lot of clutter but methods) - also it makes sense to use a direct method navigation search for code that is familiar. You can directly jump to a known method name. I think the answer below is better choice.

[Tushar]

I've removed the tutorial URL. Please don't include the URLs that could be considered as spam.

[Ajak6]

Does not work for me on mac. Although CMD+ F12 works. Thanks

[Mahesha999]

what is difference between this and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N ?

[shanwu]

@sealskej it's called "File Structure" on the keymap setting.

[Lv99Zubat]

For complete clarity, what exactly is the definition of "Symbol" in terms of Android Studio?

[Joshua Pinter]

@ImpalaTamer Good question. I use it to jump to methods, functions and definitions mostly but it looks like it could bring up more than that.

[Alexander Oh]

while this is correct, double shift is terrible at finding method names. It also finds classes and filenames and probably coins under your seat as well.

[Johnny Baloney]

Also press it FOUR times to include non-project related items.

[Mark]

Please include the name of the action in the answer for people with different hotkeys

[minhas23]

Ctrl + F12 worked nice for me. Intelli IDEA J 2018.2

[Imam Bux]

I think this should be the correct reply as it gets you to the methods window only, where with further shortcuts we can also see inherited, anonymous and lambdas. Powerful and cool! Thanks

[Moxor]

Double shift is very useful, but is not what was asked. The answer of Daniel Deng is the correct one

[Gustavo Passini]

For the sake of completeness, in KDE it's CTRL + 0.