HOW-TO: Surround text with quote in IntelliJ

By -

A quick tip on how to surround a selection with quote or brace in IntelliJ.

If you wish to be able to easily surround a selected text with quote or brace you have 2 options I know about. You can create a Live Template in surround group and then call it with either Ctrl+Alt+t or Ctrl+Alt+j or you can configure Smart Keys properly to achieve it.

You can find this option in IDE Settings > Editor > Smart Keys > Surround selection on typing quote or brace. When this option is selected and you type quote (single or double) or brace (curly, square, parentheses , angle) whilst the text is selected, it will be automatically surrounded with either quote or brace. Pretty handy.

Enjoy!

Comments

  1. UnknownSeptember 11, 2015 at 11:40 AM

    Thanks ! That was the thing i was looking for ! ;)

    ReplyDelete
  2. UnknownFebruary 11, 2016 at 10:27 AM

    Is it possible to add to the list of characters that trigger this behavior? Now, typing e.g. '*' with some text selected simply overwrites it even with this option checked...

    TIA

    ReplyDelete
  3. UnknownApril 15, 2016 at 8:05 PM

    This was mostly helpful, but slightly different on a Mac.

    FWIW with IntelliJ IDEA 2016 on Mac OSX, you configure Smart Keys thusly:

    Menu bar:
    IntelliJ IDEA
    › Preferences...
    › Editor
    › General
    › Smart Keys:
    Check: "Surround selection on typing quote or brace".

    ReplyDelete
  4. Matthias LanghardJune 22, 2016 at 11:39 AM

    Thanks :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. ismdcfAugust 5, 2016 at 12:35 PM

    Cool

    ReplyDelete
  6. UnknownJanuary 6, 2017 at 9:04 PM

    very nice!! thanks Gerald for the mac option

    ReplyDelete
  7. UnknownJanuary 6, 2017 at 9:05 PM

    very nice!! thanks Gerald for the mac option

    ReplyDelete
  8. UnknownFebruary 17, 2017 at 5:48 AM

    nice

    ReplyDelete
  9. UnknownMay 25, 2017 at 3:33 PM

    nice, that is exactly what i want

    ReplyDelete
  10. UnknownMay 25, 2017 at 3:34 PM

    thanks , that is exactly what i want !!

    ReplyDelete
  11. ImOpuJune 12, 2017 at 9:15 PM

    Code Leaked! That worked. Thanks for saving my life!

    ReplyDelete
  12. elporfirioJuly 12, 2017 at 6:15 PM

    works excelent !! select and press quote :D

    ReplyDelete
  13. UnknownSeptember 1, 2017 at 10:36 AM

    Thanks @RAFAŁ

    ReplyDelete
  14. Neil Gaetano LindbergNovember 15, 2017 at 6:38 PM

    Thanks :)

    ReplyDelete
  15. UnknownNovember 16, 2018 at 5:57 PM

    Thank you^^

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Different ways of validating @RequestBody in Spring MVC with @Valid annotation

By -
In Spring MVC the @RequestBody annotation indicates a method parameter should be bound to a body of the request. @RequestBody parameter can treated as any other parameter in a @RequestMapping method and therefore it can also be validated by a standard validation mechanism. In this post I will show 3 ways of validating the @RequestBody parameter in your Spring MVC application.
Read more

Asynchrouns and Transactional Event Listeners in Spring

By -
The built-in event publication functionality exists from the early Spring versions and it is still useful for handling basic communication between Spring components in the same application context. In general, the application can generate application events (that can be arbitrary objects) and listen to them. The whole mechanism is really simple: using ApplicationPublisher you publish events and using EventListener you handle them. What I find especially useful is asynchronous and transactional event listeners.
Read more