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Navigate code and find files

Navigate code and find files

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Navigate code and find files

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- [Instructor] IntelliJ IDEA gives you many ways of searching for your code, either by looking for literal strings, or for names of files, or for symbols, such as classes and identifiers. If you don't have any code files open, you'll see some hints right here on the main screen. So, for example, one of the easiest ways to find a file is to press the Shift key twice for Search Everywhere. This dialogue has tabs across the top that let you filter your search, so you're only looking for classes, files, or symbols. And there's also the Actions tab that lets you look for actions you can execute in IntelliJ IDEA. Let's say that I'm looking for my main class. I'll click the All tab and start typing "main", and I see the Main class in "com.example", but I also see a symbol, a method, named "Main". I'll double-click on the class, and that opens the file. Now, let's say I wanted to search for the literal string "Hello World",…

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