Boost Your Debugging Speed in IntelliJ IDEA with the Jump To Line Plugin
This article introduces the Jump To Line plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, explaining how installing it adds a draggable yellow arrow during debugging that lets you instantly jump execution to any line of code, dramatically improving debugging efficiency.
Yesterday we shared a tip for adding conditions to debug breakpoints in IDEA. Today we introduce a very useful debugging plugin that further improves efficiency.
Jump To Line
The plugin is called Jump To Line:
After installation, a small yellow arrow appears to the left of breakpoints during debugging.
By dragging this yellow arrow, you can directly jump the program execution to any line of code, achieving a “drag‑to‑run” effect as shown below:
A video demonstration is available on Bilibili for those who want to see it in action.
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Programmer DD
A tinkering programmer and author of "Spring Cloud Microservices in Action"
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