Smart Type Completion Becomes Even Smarter
Most of you are aware of IntelliJ IDEA smart type completion feature that is invoked with Ctrl+Shift+Space shortcut. If you are not familiar with this feature, I totally recommend you to read the post about it, because this thing is a real developer’s gem. Besides, in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1 release, this gem became even shinier.
Long story short, let’s cut to the chase and inquire into the matter through the examples.
- Consider we have the following code:
If we press Ctrl+Shift+Space and get no results, because a collection type is expected, we can press Ctrl+Shift+Space again to make IntelliJ IDEA search for arrays with the same component type and suggest to convert them with Arrays.asList() call.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+Space twice, and IntelliJ IDEA will search for chained expressions of the expected type.
- When an array type is expected, but no suggestions can be made in the current context, press Ctrl+Shift+Space one more time. IntelliJ IDEA will search for collections with the same component type and suggest to convert them with toArray() call.
James Victor Henry III says:
August 20, 2008Fantastic! You are always ahead of competition wrt to suchlike features.
James Victor Henry III says:
August 20, 2008By the way, the default key bindings for IDEA are not OSX/Leopard-friendly. They clash with Spotlight, Spaces, Spotlight, etc. You should review the whole key bindings and have a separate configuration for them on OSX.
dmitryx says:
August 21, 2008please-please-please add drag’n’drop for editor tabs, or shortcuts to move them, like ctrl+alt+right, ctrl+alt+left.