completion

We've just published a new IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 EAP build, in which you'll find some quite interesting new features. (more…)

Code completion is, no doubt, one of the most useful features of any IDE. This is why IntelliJ IDEA offers it in so many flavors: Basic Completion, Smart Completion, Second Completion, Second Smart Completion, Statement Completion, and Hippie Completion. Each of these completion types already uses different algorithms and heuristics, but we'd like take them even further with machine learning, w

Did you know how to quickly complete a static method call or a constant reference without writing the class name first? Just type some prefix and invoke Basic Code Completion (Ctrl+Space) twice (or Ctrl+Alt+Space once): There are two problems though: The entire project is searched and there might be just plain too many completely unrelated suggestions, and it's hard to search among them what y

As you know code completion in IntelliJ IDEA constantly evolves. Here's a few new features coming in IntelliJ IDEA 12: Middle matching Class Name Completion in Basic Completion Completion statistics in Productivity Guide Other minor improvements (more…)

This is a cross-post from WebStorm & PhpStorm blog, originally posted by Konstantin Ulitin. We are getting a lot of reports and ideas from you about the ordering of JavaScript completion options. So in IntelliJ IDEA we made small but important improvements. More relevant suggestions now appear at the top of the list in many cases. (more…)

Here I would like to tell you about some of the Groovy language support improvements available in IntelliJ IDEA 11.1. Unused Symbol Highlighting If a class, method or property is unused even if it is in fact public, you may notice it immediately with new unused symbol highlighting feature. (more…)

Sometimes you invoke an action and you don't get what you wanted immediately. In such cases it may help to invoke the action again by pressing the same shortcut. In basic code completion (Ctrl+Space) this will list non-imported classes: It works in similar way for smart-type and class name completions: In File Structure popup (Ctrl+F12) you will show inherited members with it: When introd

If you use completion autopopup in IntelliJ IDEA 11, you may have seen "n variants..." suggestions: This means there are two StringUtil classes available, neither of them is imported, and IDE can't choose which of them to put to the first place. When you choose such variant no new import statements will be added. The good side is that you won't get wrong imports after pressing space, dot or a b

Spring 3.1 "c-namespace" facility is now supported in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 with code completion, error highlighting, quick fixes and code generation. Grab the fresh IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 EAP build 106.561, check the release notes and send us your feedback. Happy Easter Holidays!

With IntelliJ IDEA 10.5, you may press up to twice as less keys every day as you do now. Seriously! Here's how. The reason IDEs exist in the first place is that they make your life easier. In particular, they are able to generate code for you. An ideal IDE would do all the boring typing by itself, leaving you more time for thinking about the great software engineering problems you face. Unfortuna

How often do you write XML configurations like that above? How many keystrokes does it take? This one is written in just moments, with the help of the new completion features coming in IntelliJ IDEA 10. First of all, the IDE completes all required subtags for you, even nested ones. Second, you can use smart completion feature to ensure that the tags you write are in order described in your XML sc

We have added more Grails-specific completion in IntelliJ Idea X. In particular, IntelliJ IDEA now knows about action and controller names in most places where they can appear. In the 'controller' and 'action' attributes of some GSP tags: In some method calls (e.g. redirect(...), render(...), chain(...)): In the URL mappings configuration: Needless to say, find usages and rename work for