I thought this might have something to do with the trial version but alas no. Please vote for: Ĭlever goose that I am, I thought I would just change the keyboard mapping manually for the most frequent features but this is not possible as ⌘ ⌃ ⌥ and ⇧ are not recognised on the AZERTY keyboard for key-mapping. Our shortcuts was designed only for QWERTY keyboards and a lot of shortcuts are indeed not ready to be used with AZERTY keyboard. Unfortunately, it’s not connected to the trial version. I wrote them an email, to which they replied fairly promptly. All the keyboard shortcuts work only with a QWERTY keyboard.

I found the appropiate how to set of video tutorials by Jeffrey Wey, made myself a coffee and was ready to go. I was all set with my downloaded trial version and was even thinking that this might be a good item for my birthday list. I was very excited to use PhpStorm by Jetbrains as it seemed to be the solution to several of my text-editor (and lack of IDE) problems. You can now do keyboard mapping to your heart’s content and the default mappings work as expected on AZERTY :)

Update: I am very pleased to announce that as phpStorm 9 (or maybe even a later build of phpStorm 8) this problem has been fixed.

Phpstorm 8