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Mastering PyCharm

By : Nafiul Islam
Book Image

Mastering PyCharm

By: Nafiul Islam

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering PyCharm
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Omni


In this section, we will discuss the tools that PyCharm provides for a user to go from anywhere to any place. You could be in your project directory one second; the next, you could be inside the Python standard library or a class in your file. These tools are generally slow or at least slower than more precise tools of navigation provided.

Back and Forward

The Back and Forward actions allow you to move your cursor back to the place where it was previously for more than a few seconds or where you've made edits. This information persists throughout sessions, so even if you exit the IDE, you can still get back to the positions that you were in before you quit.

This falls into the Omni category because these two actions could potentially get you from any place within a file to any place within a file in your directory (that you have been to) to even parts of the standard library that you've looked into as well as your third-party Python packages. The Back and Forward actions are perhaps two...