IDEA IDE：文本 cursor 在“全选”后移动

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.