Let's say that you want to add something to the end of each of these strings, for example: public final String lion = 'Lives in Africa'

Note that for Windows the shortcut for this one is Alt, not Ctrl.

Windows hold down Alt and drag the mouse down (or up).

macOS hold down Option and drag the mouse down (or up).

Place your cursor to the far right of the furthest line of code and: We can deal with that by using the mouse to drag the caret down, instead of the vertical arrow keys.

How about dealing with a big list that you've pasted into your code? How can you inline everything? First let's make an array for our data, then we can use the same clone caret operation before wrapping it in braces and completing the statement:įinally, how about HTML tags? Again, it's the same process:Ĭreate Multiple Carets at the End of LinesĬontent at the start of your line is likely to be left-aligned, but that's not the case at the end of your line. You can also add final since you're here: You can then replace public with private just once, not three times. You can press Option (macOS), or Ctrl (Windows/Linux) twice, holding it down the second time you press it and then use arrow keys to create a tower of vertical carets. You could click each one and replace public with private but there's a faster way in IntelliJ IDEA. Let's say you have defined some variables at the start of your class, but retrospectively you realise that their scope should be private, and since we're defining them here, they should also be final: public String oak = 'Oak'

Windows press Ctrl twice and hold it down the second time.

macOS press Option twice and hold it down the second time.

Create multiple carets at any point in your codeĬreate Multiple Carets in a Vertical LineĬreating carets that are stacked vertically where you have content on different lines, like a list, can save you a lot of time when you're editing your code.

Create multiple carets at the end of lines.

Create multiple carets in a vertical line.

The fastest way to achieve that is with multiple carets.

Sometimes you need to modify multiple lines of code on separate lines inside IntelliJ IDEA with the same change. She has over 20 years’ experience in the software industry which has been gained in a variety of roles including developer, technical. Helen is a Java Developer Advocate at JetBrains.

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