Tools Intellij - raisercostin/software-wiki GitHub Wiki

IntelliJ Quircks comming from eclipse

  • there are several things to learn
    • new keybindings (initially use eclipse ones)
    • new concepts (no perspective, one window per project)
  • views dissapear (menu items are grayed out) on some conditions: for example the messages window if you have no compilation errors. to check the grayed menu item: View>Tools Window>Messages (eclipse:alt+0)
  • why migrate?
    • intellij faster scala compile time: in 2008.june eclipse still has strange errors/bugs when using scala: bad hierarchy(F4), indexing scala libraries takes forever(doesn't stop not too much time) learning new same ways of doing things in intellij takes time but worth the effort of having a faster development time

Bugs

  • in scala sometimes cannot autoimport classes that exists in classpath. write the import manually and works

Good things

  • paste code with proper imports (imports taken from source file/context)
  • search in window/project only (rarely you want to search types across different projects like in whole workspace in eclipse)

Similar things but done in other ways

  • quick fixes/suggestions: Alt+Enter