

What’s more, for the buttons without a shortcut, Key Promoter X prompts you with the possibility to create one. Like a persistent and meticulous coach, it will display a tooltip with the relevant shortcut when you click on an element inside the IDE. It is no secret that mouse-free coding is faster and more efficient, but how can you become keyboard-centric when IntelliJ IDEA has so many shortcuts to remember? Key Promoter X will train you to use them. Learn more about this plugin in our blog post about it.

Keep in mind that you must suspend the program before moving the arrow. It offers straightforward navigation – just drag and drop an arrow in the Gutter area, putting an execution point at the desired line. It allows you to get to ANY line and set an execution point there without executing the preceding code. This is where the Jump To Line plugin comes in handy. Many navigation actions in IntelliJ IDEA’s debugger let you set a breakpoint in a desired place, but sometimes you need to reach a line in just one click. We are also curious about what plugins you love, so please share in the comments.Īnd as a quick reminder, you can install all the plugins via Preferences/Settings | Plugins or the Plugins tab on the Welcome screen.

In this blog post, we’ll share our recent and all-time favorite plugins. The library is enormous, and it can be a bit easy to get lost. The JetBrains Marketplace has plenty of plugins with useful features that can address your personal or business-specific needs.

To achieve 99% happiness though, I've started learning Emacs slowly a few years ago and I wish I had been more persistent in the past, when I tried to get into it! It has amazing paradigms and you can get into it gradually.Though IntelliJ IDEA is a fully capable IDE, you may want to personalize it. After I invested into faster machines with boat loads of RAM, I'm really happy with IntelliJ 90% of the time! I used many many other editors (q.exe, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Notepad++, UltraEdit32, vim, TextMate, Sublime Text 2/3, SubEthaEdit, Light Table, Atom, VS Code), for months and years on end, then finally bit the bullet and learnt IntelliJ in a few weeks. while I pay for IntelliJ Ultimate, i use the EAP version most of the time and just switch back to the stable version, if the EAP is too shaky. because of that, it might be a bit more annoying to use it and sometimes your favorite 3rd-party plugins don't support the latest EAP version, so you might have a bit of degradation in convenience for some days or weeks. Btw, /u/maquinary do you know that the EAP (Early Access Program) versions of IntelliJ Ultimate are also free to use? they are time-limited though, so you are forced to upgrade regularly (every ~2 months), but there are always new versions coming out, with new features, but also with new bugs and API deprecations.
