I come from a strong Eclipse background and in my new assignment, my project team uses IntelliJ IDE; So thought let me check this IntelliJ editor. As expected (after being loyal to Eclipse for many years) first I noticed all the bad things about IntelliJ, Here’s my list of bad things (Let me know if there is a better way of using IntelliJ to get around my problems)
- Once you setup you project on IntelliJ, next time when you open IntelliJ, It takes long time to open the project/ IDE (does some scanning of Java/ jar files) worst part is you can’t even minimize that window/ run the process in back ground.
- Upon installing a plug-in, Eclipse asks for a restart of workbench and upon your approval for restart, eclipse automatically restarts, For the same, Interestingly IntelliJ asks “You need to shut down IDEA to activate changes in plugins. would you like do it now? “; (Notice question doesn’t say ‘Restart’ ); So as expected, you have to (re)start your IDEA explicitly after installing a plugin.
- You Can’t drag and drop a Java file from one folder to another folder.
- IntelliJ expects a developer to configure the classpath twice, once to build the application and the second to run the application compared with eclipse where the same class is used by default.
- With little time i spend on IntelliJ, haven’t found a way to add some pre-configured code templates.
Written by Ravi Nallakukkala on April 11th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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In my new project, my team was using IntelliJ as their IDE and I come from a strong Eclipse background, Initially it was hard time to find out all the Shortcut Keys for IntelliJ so thought I could document the shortcut keys that I commonly use, I will update this list as my learning experience continues with IntelliJ
| Description |
Eclipse shortcut |
IntelliJ Shortcut |
| Navigate a Java Type |
CTRL + ALT + T |
CTRL + N |
| Navigate a Resource |
CTRL + ALT + R |
CTRL + SHIFT +N |
| Last Modified Source |
ALT + Left arrow |
CTRL + ALT + left arrow |
| Debug |
F11 |
Shift + F9 |
| Open Declaration |
F3 |
CTRL + SHIFT + B |
| Open Hierarchy |
F4 |
CTRL + H |
| Organize Imports |
CRTL + SHIFT + O |
CTRL + ALT + O |
| Find |
CTRL + F |
CTRL + F |
| Find Again/ previous |
F3 / SHIFT + F3 |
F3 / SHIFT + F3 |
| Step Into |
F5 |
F7 |
| Step Over |
F6 |
F8 |
| Step Out |
F7 |
Shift + F8 |
| Resume |
F8 |
F9 |
| To find impl of an abstract Method |
? |
Ctrl + Alt + B |
Written by Ravi Nallakukkala on April 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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Written by Ravi Nallakukkala on March 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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Need less to say this is a extreamly popular free java editor, http://www.eclipse.org/
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Written by Ravi Nallakukkala on March 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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