Now that you have the king of shortcuts, let’s build your arsenal. These are the complementary commands every senior developer uses daily.
To scroll through your terminal history page by page without touching the mouse wheel: Shift + PageUp / Shift + PageDown
As a developer, you likely spend a lot of time in your terminal, navigating through lengthy logs, searching for specific errors, or scrolling through code. PhpStorm, a popular integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP, offers a handy shortcut to quickly jump to the top of your terminal output.
| Action | Shortcut (bash/zsh) | |--------|----------------------| | | Ctrl+L | | Interrupt process | Ctrl+C | | Search command history | Ctrl+R | | Move cursor word-by-word | Alt+B / Alt+F (or Esc+B / Esc+F on macOS) |
For even faster terminal work, assign a custom shortcut like Alt + 1 to focus the terminal, then Home / ⌘ + ← to jump to the top of the current line.
Sometimes you need to look at two terminal outputs at the exact same time (e.g., watching backend application logs while running frontend unit tests). PhpStorm allows you to split your terminal vertically or horizontally.
If the default shortcuts feel awkward or conflict with global operating system hotkeys, you can easily change them to fit your preferences. Open the IDE settings:
: Alt + ← / → (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + Shift + [ / ] (macOS).
: PhpStorm supports completion for subcommands and parameters. Press Ctrl + Space inside the terminal to trigger a completion popup manually .
Switches between open tool windows (terminal, project, structure, database, etc.) and the editor.
Open via Ctrl + Alt + S (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + , (macOS). Go to Keymap and search for "Terminal".
Phpstorm Terminal Shortcut — Top !link!
Now that you have the king of shortcuts, let’s build your arsenal. These are the complementary commands every senior developer uses daily.
To scroll through your terminal history page by page without touching the mouse wheel: Shift + PageUp / Shift + PageDown
As a developer, you likely spend a lot of time in your terminal, navigating through lengthy logs, searching for specific errors, or scrolling through code. PhpStorm, a popular integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP, offers a handy shortcut to quickly jump to the top of your terminal output. phpstorm terminal shortcut top
| Action | Shortcut (bash/zsh) | |--------|----------------------| | | Ctrl+L | | Interrupt process | Ctrl+C | | Search command history | Ctrl+R | | Move cursor word-by-word | Alt+B / Alt+F (or Esc+B / Esc+F on macOS) |
For even faster terminal work, assign a custom shortcut like Alt + 1 to focus the terminal, then Home / ⌘ + ← to jump to the top of the current line. Now that you have the king of shortcuts,
Sometimes you need to look at two terminal outputs at the exact same time (e.g., watching backend application logs while running frontend unit tests). PhpStorm allows you to split your terminal vertically or horizontally.
If the default shortcuts feel awkward or conflict with global operating system hotkeys, you can easily change them to fit your preferences. Open the IDE settings: PhpStorm allows you to split your terminal vertically
: Alt + ← / → (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + Shift + [ / ] (macOS).
: PhpStorm supports completion for subcommands and parameters. Press Ctrl + Space inside the terminal to trigger a completion popup manually .
Switches between open tool windows (terminal, project, structure, database, etc.) and the editor.
Open via Ctrl + Alt + S (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + , (macOS). Go to Keymap and search for "Terminal".