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Hooray! Fresh IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 EAP build is out! Among the numerous bugfixes, this build addresses one of the issues that prevented it from being used on macOS Sierra. Users of macOS Sierra, we're kindly asking you to thoroughly test this build and let us know if the problem is gone. Faster Search in Git Log The new build brings a dramatic speed improvement to searching thru Git Logs, particularly for the Text, Author and Path filters. Now, after the project has been opened (for the first time) and all the important startup tasks are completed, IntelliJ IDEA scans all reposito

Today we've released a fresh IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 EAP build which, among other improvements, finally fixes a very annoying (and highly voted) issue with case-only renames in Git for Windows and OS X. We hope this will make your work simpler when it comes to committing case-only renames from IntelliJ IDEA. Later this week we'll also share the story behind this issue and how it was fixed, so if you're interested, stay tuned. Also, we're excited to confirm that now we officially support font ligatures (another highly voted request). This feature has been available for some time as experimental

Every week we publish a fresh IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP. Today's build, among bugfixes that address issues you reported, brings a few improvements to Git integration and IntelliJ IDEA heart, the code editor. Move elements right and left We already have a way to move code statements up and down: Ctrl + Shift + Up/Down (Cmd + Shift + Up/Down for OS X.) They come in handy when you're rearranging code statements. Sometimes, however, it might be useful to move them left or right (when you're, for example, changing the order of attributes of an XML element, method parameters, or elements in an arra

From what we usually hear, the fans of Vim, Emacs, Sublime and other nice editors often explain their choice by performance concerns. IntelliJ IDEA for example may feel laggy (comparing to a text editor) when you type, and the usual justification for that is some variation of “an intelligent IDE thinks while you’re typing to provide smart coding assistance”. While this is true, should it really be the case? We’ve tried to figure this out. (more…)

If you haven’t tried IntelliJ IDEA 14 EAP yet, we hope this sneak peek will convince you to, because it keeps getting better and better! One of current EAP highlights is smarter Backspace key behavior: it doesn't just remove indents and white spaces, it does so according to your code style settings. This new setting which is called Smart Backspace Indent makes editing code way more convenient because you can just slam it repeatedly without having to worry about breaking code style and remove unwanted spacing much quicker: The setting is enabled by default but you can toggle it from S

As you remember last week we announced the plans to publish articles from the 30-day guide on getting started with IntelliJ IDEA. The first article was about the user interface. Today we would like to share with you one more article about the editor basics in IntelliJ IDEA. Structural selection. A definite must-know Did you know that IntelliJ IDEA provides an alternative way to select code? Structural selection allows you to select expressions based on grammar. By pressing Ctrl + W (Cmd + W for Mac) you keep expanding your selection (starting from the caret). And vice versa, you can shrink i

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…)

This is a cross-post from WebStorm & PhpStorm blog, originally posted by Rustam Vishnyakov. This long-awaited feature gives you a possibility to define your own code-folding regions with special line comments. (more…)

We know that one of the most popular ways to navigate within a file is File Structure popup. We've recently redesigned it to make the navigation more comfortable. New File Structure is tree-based and shows everything in your file when you first invoke it with Control+F12. The following short screencast should explain better what we did. Did you notice you can use Show Quick Doc and Show Implementations action from File Structure popup? You can already try it in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 EAP. Let us know what you think and we can improve it even further before 11.1 is shipped.

Recently I realized that javadoc editing may be easily improved by introducing some handy little features. After using them for a couple of days, I can say they are cool, so, it's time to share them with you. And you can try them all in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 11 EAP. The main idea is to ease fulfilling method javadoc stubs that IntelliJ IDEA generates for you: Smart "End" Pressing End when the caret is located after javadoc parameter name relocates it to the position where description should start. It respects 'Align parameters description' code style setting as well ('Code Style | Javad