In respose to a comment by gavin about my Editing with IntelliJ experience. I'm using my own set of keybindings. I've not made many changes yet though. When I was using the emacs bindings supplied I had the problem he mentions, useful IntelliJ functions were moved to weird places. What I did was copy the default keybindings set and mody them. Initially I just put the cursor control functions on Ctrl-f, -b, -a, and -e. Any IntelliJ ones in conflict I moved to Alt-. So find declaration went to Alt-b. After using emacs a lot Atl-b is no more weird than Ctrl-b. I'll probably make some more changes in the future as I use IntelliJ more and find things my fingers stumble over. It may be that Ctrl-i for tab, and Ctrl-j for enter are going to be the next ones. The way that IntelliJ handles sets of keybindings makes it easy to switch between them, and you can't change the supplied sets, so at least you can't screw things up too badly.