Fresh IntelliJ IEA 2016.2 EAP build is out and ready. Among the usual bugfixes it also brings something special: Breadcrumbs for Java code.
Until now breadcrumbs were only available in HTML and XML code, where they have proven to be super handy for tracking of the editing position as well as traversing the tag tree. Now breadcrumbs work for Java, too, where instead of tags they let you navigate through classes, lambda expressions and methods:
To enable this feature, go to Settings → Editor → General → Appearance and select Show breadcrumbs.
Your thoughts and impressions about this and any other changes are very welcome here in the comments, and, of course, in our issue tracker.
Develop with Pleasure!
This is awesome!
I already tried it and being able to know where you are with just a glance has saved me a lot of time that I would have wasted scrolling up and down again 😀
This is such a nice feature, specially if you use Distraction free mode.
Is kotlin also supported ?
Not at the moment.
You can watch https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-12852 to get notified when the feature is implemented for Kotlin.
Are there any plans for breadcrumbs in Scala?
Yep, in plans!
To short the breadcrumps:
instead:
anonymous CloumnInfo
You can write:
new ColumnInfo
And instead:
lambda Comparator
You can write:
-> Comparator
Thats much shorter and match the syntax in code and not introduce new vocabulary
Makes sense., indeed. We’ll consider changing it. Thank you!
Nice to read “Develop with pleasure” instead of “drive to develop”. Maybe eventually we will see better app icons
Thank you Alexander! Glad you liked it. We, actually, never said the “pleasure” should disappear
As to the icons, we’re definitely not going to stop at where we are now and some updates will surely happen.
May I ask what kind of font is used in the image where font ligature is shown
Looks sweet tho.
Fira Code: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Hi,
how could I change the breadcrumbs color for Java? I’m using my own color scheme and I couldn’t figure out which parts of my scheme are responsible for that (I was changing it before the breadcrumbs were available for Java and they looks pretty ugly now).
Thanks,
Przemyslaw
Currently it’s not possible but were working to fix that.
It would be great because on some schema this is not readable at all
Is there a ticket where I could monitor the progress for this feature?
Thanks for quick response!
Awesome! Are there any plans for breadcrumbs in CPP files? Looking forward that
I’m not super thrilled. Takes precious real estate on my laptop, and does not really benefit you if you try to keep your code readable and compact (like it should be). Guess it could come handy on some marginal cases, but I removed it by default.
It would better if we can change the color of breadcrumb
Is breadcrumb available for Groovy?
Yes, it’s now available for Groovy.
Do Breadcrumbs work for C++ Code in AppCode?
Unfortunately, not. Please follow this issue for the progress: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/OC-15963