How to use certain keymaps of IntelliJ Idea with german Mac Keyboard

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update

I'm using us layout now. But the problem is that the key bindings are not bound to the characters a key would produce but to the key itself. So for example commenting is cmd+- as - is on the same key on German layout as / on us. So cmd+\ translates to cmd+- on German layout. It's not fixed on Idea14, don't know about 15.

When using default shortcuts of IntelliJ Idea, some of them are not working properly on a German Keyboard. Mostly because there is a key that is available without pressing Shift on an us layout. E.g. pressing Cmd+; can only be achieved by pressing Cmd+Shift+, on a german layout, so this keymapping for opening the projects structure doesn't work. I helped myself out by mapping Cmd+Shift+, instead of Cmd+;.

However for Cmd+/ (toggle line comment; Cmd+Shift+7 on german layout), this is not working. First problem of course is that Cmd+Shift+7 is already mapped unlike Cmd+Shift+,. So I tried to remap to Cmd+Shift+L which wasn't mapped already, but the comment toggling won't work.

I gotta add that I'm using IdeaVim Plugin and I have three different options that are called "Comment with (Line|Block) comment", all under a different hierarchy (Code->Folding, Plugins->IdeaVim and just Other. Which one is the right?

How do you tackle these problems on a non-us layout and a mac keyboard?

Answer 1

Try this out, CMD + _ on the German keyboard for comment: https://victorvolle.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/intellij-german-keyboard-shortcuts-reference/