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Call me crazy, but I always thought that the actions you use most in a program should be mapped to obvious keys. I was using FreeRIDE (Ruby IDE) the other day and really liked how they have Run mapped to F5. F5 is in the center of the keyboard, very easy to hit without thinking much at all. So in IDEA I remapped Run to F5, Debug to Shift+F5, and Rebuild to F4 (keys that were assigned to refactorings that I don't use that often). I also assigned Alt+Left click to Run and Alt+Shift+Left click to Debug. So now I simply point at a package in the project window, Alt+Click, and all the unit tests run. The same thing works when I point at a specific test method within a class. It's strange that IDEA isn't shipped with more obvious mappings - it's these little things that save your wrists and keep you in flow....
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