IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 EAP Adds Breadcrumb for Java
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!
Alex Katlein says:
June 22, 2016This 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 😀
Davi says:
June 22, 2016This is such a nice feature, specially if you use Distraction free mode.
someone says:
June 23, 2016Is kotlin also supported ?
Andrey Cheptsov says:
June 23, 2016Not at the moment.
Dmitry Jemerov says:
June 24, 2016You can watch https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-12852 to get notified when the feature is implemented for Kotlin.
Simek says:
June 23, 2016Are there any plans for breadcrumbs in Scala?
Andrey Cheptsov says:
June 23, 2016Yep, in plans!
Arno nyhm says:
June 25, 2016To 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
Andrey Cheptsov says:
July 6, 2016Makes sense., indeed. We’ll consider changing it. Thank you!
Alexander says:
July 4, 2016Nice to read “Develop with pleasure” instead of “drive to develop”. Maybe eventually we will see better app icons
Eugene Toporov says:
July 5, 2016Thank 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.
Sebastian says:
July 12, 2016May I ask what kind of font is used in the image where font ligature is shown 🙂 Looks sweet tho.
Andrey Cheptsov says:
July 13, 2016Fira Code: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Przemek says:
July 21, 2016Hi,
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
Andrey Cheptsov says:
July 21, 2016Currently it’s not possible but were working to fix that.
Przemek says:
July 21, 2016It 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!
Zhiheng Lin says:
August 15, 2016Awesome! Are there any plans for breadcrumbs in CPP files? Looking forward that 🙂
Marco Gerardi says:
September 23, 2016I’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.
Haobo_X says:
November 22, 2016It would better if we can change the color of breadcrumb
Red says:
June 8, 2017Is breadcrumb available for Groovy?
Andrey Cheptsov says:
June 12, 2017Yes, it’s now available for Groovy.
ForestRingGames says:
August 16, 2017Do Breadcrumbs work for C++ Code in AppCode?
Andrey Cheptsov says:
August 21, 2017Unfortunately, not. Please follow this issue for the progress: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/OC-15963