I use IDEA IDE (PhpStorm). My regular pattern of keyboard actions is "Ctrl A, Ctrl Alt L, ARROW_KEY" to auto format code in the editor then to remove selection. Some time ago I just pressed any arrow key to move text cursor to one position and to remove selection. Text cursor was moved to one position relative to position where cursor was before I pressed Ctrl A.

But now cursor jumps to begin of selection (left or top arrow key) or to the end (right or down arrow key). It means jump to the first character of the code or to the last character. It is very uncomfortable, I need to use touchpad/mouse to remove selection and to stay on the same code fragment.

Is it possible to configure this behaviour (cursor movement for "all is selected" case) in IDEA settings?

CodePudding user response：

You can set editor.action.caretMovement.UpDownIgnoreSelectionBoundaries=true option in idea.properties IntelliJ platform properties file. Then on Up/Down keys caret will navigate to up/down line.