Chapter 3

Top 10 IntelliJ IDEA Plugins

IntelliJ IDEA has inspired many Java developers to write plug-ins, from J2EE to code editing tools to
games. Now it has a robust
plugin ecosystem with more than 1500 available plugins and new ones appearing nearly every week. In
this article we are going
to present the 10 most useful to our point of view plugins for any developer using this IDE.

3.1 Shifter
Detects type of selection, line or keyword at caret and shifts it "up" or "down" on keyboard shortcut. If
there’s only one shiftable
word in a line, it can be shifted without the caret touching it. Lowercase/uppercase or lower case with
upper first character of
shifted words is maintained.
Default keyboard shortcuts:
• Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Comma : Shift Down
• Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Period : Shift Up
• Ctrl+Shift+Alt+K : Shift Up More
• Ctrl+Shift+Alt+J : Shift Down More
Shift more: repeats shifting the selected value multiple times. The amount of repetitions can be
configured in the plugin
configuration (default: 10).

3.2 BrowseWordAtCaret

Allows to easily browse next/previous word at caret and highlight other appearances of selected word.
Usage: Browse with
CTRL-ALT-UP, CTRL-ALT-DOWN (note: on default-keymap this shortcut is also for next/previous
occurrence).

3.3 BashSupport

Bash language support for IntelliJ. It supports syntax highlighting, rename refactoring, documentation
lookup, inspections, quickfixes.
BashSupport can directly run scripts within IntelliJ. You can create a new run configuration for Bash
scripts. Here you can
set which interpreter is used to run it. Whenever a script is executed the output is logged. If Bash prints
out syntax errors then
the erroneous lines are clickable to jump to the location of the error.