This would give IDEA more marketing appeal
Per Eugene Vigdorchik's suggestion on the plugins thread on IntelliScala, what major changes to IDEA do you think would give it a significant boost in market appeal? Think big changes such as along the lines of supporting a new language.
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You are using Firebug, right?
http://www.getfirebug.com/
I believe that is for Mozilla browsers...I think there are some discrepancies with Internet Explorer. Our Fortune 50 company does not care about Firefox...go figure.
I also agree on this. I haven't read the links you provided, but I'm also encountering lots of problems with SVN. I screwed up the whole repository by using a very buggy EAP version (Always used them in 5.x, but now I'll never use those again). Even the 'stable' version feels unstable. IntelliJ doesn't detect all the conflicting files, and I end up with a noncompiling project dir. I switched back to using command line tools now, since they always seem to work. Don't get me wrong, I'm also an IntelliJ fanboy, but (when the right plugins are installed) Eclipse sometimes even seems to work better, and it hurts to admit this...
Hello Erik,
Can you provide some details for this problem? In which IntelliJ IDEA version
exactly did you experience it?
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I think if they added the ability to maximize the console window (or any of the side-tabbed windows) it would make me and a several eclipse users I know happy. The fact that you cannot after all this time is hard for me to fathom and I recall bringing this up at one point in the past and an IntelliJ dev said it wasn't of value. LET ME MAXIMIZE WHATEVER THE HELL I WANT, thanks. This is one of those areas where eclipse users looking over my shoulder are not impressed at all. It just doesn't make sense.
Hi Dimitri,
Thanks for the question. Currently, I'm using version 6.0.4, but it's quite hard to describe the problem, or to reproduce it. Sometimes I have a lot of files to merge, but it seems as IntelliJ doesn't pick up all the conflicting files (even though the .rXXXX files are created of the Java files), and I have to search my project tree for conflicting files myself (though doing a 'resolve conflict' on each conflicting files does work. It's just that when updating from SVN, the merge dialog pop's up, I do a 'save and continue' (not sure about the name of the button, and after a few files IntelliJ stops merging, and I'm left with some unmerged/conflicting files.
Erik
(PS: I really appreaciate the interest you take in this issue)
1) Better support for popular non-Java languages such as Ruby, Javascript, Python and SQL. I realize that there is some support for these languages (Ruby & Python through plugins, and Javascript natively), but many of IDEA's coolest refactoring features don't work. I realize it's a hard problem, but that's what makes it worth money.
2) More emphasis on teamwork. I've worked on many teams that add new team members relatively often (because of new hires or because of rotating people around to various projects). Configuring IDEA is not a simple process (project and module settings, code styles, version control settings, file templates, live templates, errors and warnings) -- having a central company server for these types of settings would be so nice.
Imagine joining a team, firing up IDEA, choosing your project name from the list of projects returned by the auto-discovered server, and then sitting back and drinking coffee while a project is built, configured with all the correct modules and libraries and company code style, the code is checked out from source control and compiled, and all the tests are run. I think that would be a big productivity boost, and therefore a good marketing message.
And to take it further: team members could share configuration settings (such as new live templates and compiler settings) by clicking on one button and the new live settings would be pushed to all other team members' computers (with their permission of course). The "expert" users could then share their knowledge so much faster with newer users.
Agree with Erik on point #2) More emphasis on teamwork
Imagine joining a team, firing up IDEA, choosing your project name from the list of projects returned by the auto-discovered server, and then sitting back and drinking coffee while a project is built, configured with all the correct modules and libraries and company code style, the code is checked out from source control and compiled, and all the tests are run. I think that would be a big productivity boost, and therefore a good marketing message.
What a great idea!
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I know this is a late add; but I haven't been on the forum lately, so I missed this thread.
Something that I would love to see is a built in spell checker that checks all String literals and comments (program & javadoc) highlighting misspelled words but ignoring variable names, even in Strings and comments. While there is the SpellCheckPlugin plugin (http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=25) that does a some of this, it falls a little short on features, and has not been updated in 2 years.
I believe this problem is fixed in 6.0.5, try that and see if it helps. There seem to have been a few SVN bugs fixed recently, which is making my life much more pleasant! There still seem to be problems refactoring and deleting directories, but I haven't managed to work out the conditions clearly enough to file a JIRA yet.
Cheers,
Colin
Thanks. Just switched so 6.0.5, and I'll see if the problem persists...
Ahmed Mohombe wrote:
Saying it's the name on the credit card isn't accurate either. For
example, if I bought a licence on salary sacrifice, the actual cost
would be paid by my own funds, but the payment would have been made on
the company's credit card.
Daniel
I love this idea.
I also suggested something similar: to use auto discovery for sharing (live,file) templates. That would be so awesome.
S.