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In eclipse you can hit "enter" and the IDE will automatically take you to the end of the line and place a semicolon.
In IntelliJ, if you hit shift-enter you get similar behavior minus adding the semicolon. I have read and tried cntrl-shift-enter and you get the exact same behavior. However, that is such an awkward key combination to be using all the time, at least much more so than the one-button approach using Eclipse.
Any ideas?
From version 14.0 onwards, the path to the setting dialog is slightly different, a General submenu has been added between Editor and Appearance as shown below
From IntelliJ 8.1.2 onwards, this option is in File | Settings1. Within the IDE Settings section of that dialog, you'll find it under Editor | Appearance.
In that context if you press Ctrl-Shift-Enter as CrazyCoder suggests, you kind of get this behavior. It will add the braces and put your cursor on the next line. You can also press Shift-Enter which will put you to the next line and makes less assumptions about the code. Ctrl-Shift-Enter behaves differently depending on the code it is looking at, so that won't give you consistent behavior. For example in the middle of a string it puts you at the end of the line and adds a semi-colon.
It just seems that end is preferred key here to get to the end of the line. You can add in the key map an additional key to go to the end of the line, if a different key combination works better for you, but it won't just change its behavior because you are in the middle of a parentheses.
Looking at the IDEA options, it seems that the parentheses behavior isn't really a live template like automatically creating a for loop, so you don't tab out when you are done, rather it is just automatically complete the parentheses for you, and intelligently recognizing that you may want to type fluidly as if it didn't.
Best Answer
In InteiJ IDEA use (Ctrl-Shift-Enter) for "Smart Autocomplete".
It will end the line "smartly" with a semicolon as you wish. It also works in a few different situations like IF statements of FOR loops.