How to Jump to the Next / Previous Error in CLion

Name: How to Jump to the Next / Previous Error in CLion
Uploaded: 2026-05-25T09:00:00+00:00
Channel: Jesper K. Pedersen
Description: CLion almost has a “Go to Next Error” key binding — but it doesn’t work like Qt Creator, where F6 jumps to the next compilation error. In this video, we’ll look at how it works and how to configure it to behave the same way as Qt Creator. Disclaimer: This reflects CLion at the time of recording. New versions might be different.

Jesper K. Pedersen

25 May 2026

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CLion almost has a “Go to Next Error” key binding — but it doesn’t work like Qt Creator, where F6 jumps to the next compilation error. In this video, we’ll look at how it works and how to configure it to behave the same way as Qt Creator.

Disclaimer:

This reflects CLion at the time of recording. New versions might be different.

Chapters:

00:00 Welcome

00:30 What does F6 really do?

02:21 Binding F6 to next occurrence

All the CLion videos in this series

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Jesper K. Pedersen

HR Director / COO

Jesper K. Pedersen – COO/HR director at KDAB. Jesper has actively developed with Qt since 1998 and, despite his fancy title, still does so.

He has held almost 100 training classes in Qt since 2000. Today, his greatest claim to fame is the QML youtube series and more recently his youtube series called Qt Widgets and More.

How to Jump to the Next / Previous Error in CLion

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