Equivalent of Ctrl-W for IntelliJ Mac

The cheatsheet says that for expanding selection I should use Ctrl-Up, but it doesn't work for me on the latest intelliJ, with Mac OS X 10.7.4

What is the equivalent of Ctrl-W for IntelliJ in Mac OS X?


Depends on Preferences | Keymap. The action is called Select Word at Caret.

  • Mac OS X keymap: CmdW (Cmd=Meta)
  • Mac OS X 10.5+ keymap: AltUp (Alt=Option=)

Select word: option+Up arrow

(IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2.3 on macOS Sierra 10.12)


It's called now Extend selection, as mentioned before by default AltUp.

IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1 (Ultimate Edition), Build #IU-191.6183.87
macOS Mojave 10.14.3