How to access mnemonics in Intellij 2017+ on Mac?

Question

There is some evidence in the Intellij codebase they support ALT(/Meta)+CTL - (mnemonic) in Mac.

E.g: in platform/platform-

Answer 1

Thanks to Serge Baranov of JetBrains : we now have a solution

Add the following to Custom VM Options

-Dide.mnemonic.helper.old=true

In addition a fix will be added to 2017.2