Customizing IDEA - IntelliJ IDEA in Action - page 452

To create a two-stroke shortcut, add a shortcut as before, but click the Enable
box above the Second Stroke field. Enter your first stroke in the first box, and then
mouse over to the Second Stroke field and enter the second key combination.

If you turn on the Disable mnemonics in menu option for your keymap,
the main IDEA menu won't be accessible via the Alt key, freeing up the
dozen or more key combinations used to access the menus.

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12.4.6 Defining mouse shortcuts

Another alternative is the mouse shortcut. It lets you define shortcuts that include
mouse button clicks, with or without modifier keys. When a mouse click is
included in a shortcut, the action affects the item you click. For example, if you
hold down Alt and single-click the middle mouse button, you can view the Quick
JavaDoc for the item that you click in the editor. Although you can't assign an
action to turning the wheel on a wheel mouse (it's used for scrolling), if your
wheel is also a button, IDEA considers it button 2.
To assign a mouse shortcut, select the action
and click the Add Mouse Shortcut button to
bring up the dialog shown in figure 12.7. This
dialog works similarly to that for adding key-
board shortcuts. First select either a single-click
or a double-click shortcut. Then, hold down
any combination of modifier keys ( Alt , Ctrl ,
and Shift ) you want to include, and press your
mouse buttons on the Click Pad area of the
dialog (where the icon of the mouse is). The
button you pressed and the resulting shortcut
definition are shown in the Shortcut Preview
area. You can repeat the process until you're
happy with your shortcut and click OK . As
before, you may need to resolve a conflict with
an existing shortcut.

Figure 12.7 Mouse shortcuts add a
new dimension to shortcuts, allowing
you to perform operations with a click
rather than a keystroke.

12.4.7 Defining quick lists

Another configurable option IDEA offers is quick lists, which are basically pop-up
menus of IDEA commands that you design yourself and assign to a keystroke or