Intention actions | AppCode Documentation

As you work in the editor, AppCode analyzes your code, searches for ways to optimize it, and detects potential and actual problems.
As soon as the IDE finds a way to alter your code, it displays a yellow bulb icon in the editor next to the current line. By clicking this icon, you can view intention actions available in the current context. Intention actions cover a wide range of situations from warnings to optimization suggestions. You can view the full list of intentions and customize them in the Preferences dialog Ctrl+Alt+S.
A red bulb with an exclamation mark indicates that AppCode has detected a problem, and prompts you to select an associated fix — a quick-fix. Quick-fixes and intention actions together are called context actions.
Code inspections also provide quick-fixes but they have different settings. For more information, refer to Code inspections.
Click the bulb icon or press Alt+Enter to open the list of suggestions and select an action from the list.
Intention preview opens automatically. If an intention is complex, and the preview cannot be generated, you will see the intention description. Hover the mouse pointer over available intentions on the suggestion list to preview them.
Press Enter or click an intention on the list to apply it. For example, you can use an intention action to get rid of explicit types in variable declarations:
You can toggle the preview off and on by pressing Ctrl+Q or by enabling Show preview for intention actions when available in Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S) Editor | General | Appearance.
If you want to apply intention actions quicker, you can assign shortcuts to them. Currently, you cannot assign shortcuts to intentions that belong to code inspections.
In the editor, place the caret at the code that triggers the intention action for which you want to assign a shortcut, and click the bulb icon or press Alt+Enter.
A list of available suggestions opens.
In the list, click next to the necessary intention and from the menu that opens, select Assign shortcut….
In the dialog that opens, specify the shortcut that you want to use for this action and click OK.
After that you won't need to open the list of suggestions to apply this intention action in the editor; you will be able to do it right away by pressing the configured shortcut.
You can view the full list of available intention actions, and disable actions that you don't need at the moment. To open the list of intention actions:
Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open the IDE settings and select Editor | Intentions.
For each intention action, you can see a description and an example. To disable an intention, clear the checkbox next to it.
Apply the changes and close the dialog.
Click the light bulb icon (or press Alt+Enter) to open the list of suggestions.
Select the action you want to disable, click the right arrow next to it, and then click Disable <intention action name>.
You can disable the intention action icon and the quick-fix icon in the editor.
Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open the IDE settings and select Editor | General | Appearance.
Disable the Show intention bulb option, apply the changes, and close the dialog.