What is the IntelliJ IDEA's Keymap's abbreviation feature useful for?

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What is the "Abbreviation" feature in IntelliJ IDEA Keymap for? Web help on Keymap is silent about it.

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Solution 1 - Intellij Idea

According to Andrey Dernov from JetBrains Support:

> You use abbreviation added in keymap for quick search an action when "Search everywhere" (double Shift).

After adding "foobar" abbreviation to Git annotation command.

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I can find the abbreviation and invoke the command with double Shift.

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Unfortunately, the functionality does not support partial entry.

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I personally find Shift-⌘-A easier to use in that case, because the results are limited to commands only.

PS: JetBrains support rocks!

Update: There was a follow-up from JetBrains:

> The feature was recently added in IDEA, we haven't had time to update the documentation yet. We will do it in near future.

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