From the course: IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition Essential Training

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- [Instructor] IntelliJ Idea has tools for online help that you can use to learn more about the IDE but it also gives you Context-sensitive help for the languages and frameworks that you use most frequently. Specifically for Java API Docs you have to configure this yourself. Now for these demonstrations, if you're working on a Mac first make sure that your keyboard shortcuts known as the Keymap are set to macOS. Go to the IntelliJ Idea menu and choose preferences then choose Keymap and check your Keymap selection here. If you're working on Windows it should be set correctly already. Now, place the cursor inside the keyword System that's the name of a Java class and press the F1 key and on Mac you'll see a popup window that shows you some simple documentation about that class but there's a lot to know about that class and it will be nice to be able to get to the external API Docs that is the complete…

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