Intellij shortcut on MacOs

Question

I'm a new Intellij user and I ran into some troubles with shortcuts. Despite my researches, I cannot find answers to my questions.

I'm using Intellij with an azerty keyboard on both MacOS and Debian and I have strange behavior with shortcut.

• On MacOs, the shortcuts respond as if my keyboard were a qwerty. For example if I want to comment a line, the sortcut is defined as "ctrl + /", but to get that I have to type "ctrl + !", which is the location of the slash key on an english keybord.
• On Debian, the shortcuts respond fine for a french keybord, which is also annoying because the slash key isn't a primary key... I can access it on the numpad, but without numpad like on a laptop, I have to remap every shortcuts using the slash key...

I read the problem on MacOs comes from java and Jetbrain doesn't care about it at all, and it's really not a priority for Oracle.

My questions are :

• If the problem is from java, why don't I have the same problem on Debian with the same java version ?

• Why don't I have the same problem on MacOs with Eclipse also ? Do Eclipse and Intellij use different processes to get the key hit by the user ?

• Why Jetbrain doesn't provide an azerty mapping of their shortcuts ? The software is expensive and it could have the best features as possible, but if non english speaker user cannot use such a basic feature like shortcuts, it's just a big waste of money and time...

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

I personally love to work with IntelliJ, I use it on both Windows (azerty) at home and on mac (us qwerty) at work. One of the things I love about this IDE is that you can completely customize your shortcuts, so If the issue still bothers you, that might be something worth considering...