Find actions and options
JetBrains Rider helps you quickly find and apply any of its actions, without digging through the menu. By an action, we mean an executable command available for the current caret position or any global command, for example, a command that opens a tool window.
You can also search for and navigate to JetBrains Rider preferences by name, and even change preferences with boolean values right in the popup menu.
Find and execute actions or find and change preferences
Do one of the following:
Press Ctrl+Shift+A.
While the focus is in the editor, press Alt+Enter.
In the main menu, choose
Start typing the name of an action or setting, or try any related words. For example, you can type
propertyto find actions related to type members:
If the desired action appears in the list, you can execute it by clicking on it or selecting it with arrow keys and pressing Enter.
For preferences of boolean type, you can press Enter to change value or press Shift+Enter to open the corresponding settings page; for preferences of other types, press Enter to open the settings page.
Use Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Up to navigate between search strings that you have used previously.
Find actions by their shortcuts
Press Ctrl+Alt+S or choose (Windows and Linux) or (macOS) from the menu, then choose on the left.
Click
to the right of the search field.When the Find Shortcut dialog appears, press the shortcut.
The list of actions will narrow down to only show actions available with this shortcut.