2018.2 groovy editing broken
Usually I did install any update to intellij IDEA without hesitation as it usually works better with the new version. However after the update to 2018.2 the groovy support seems broken to me. There are several issues I discovered after using the new Intellij just for some minutes - most probably there are even more:
* Syntax highlighting seems odd. It will now underline any local variable. Previously it only used to do that when it did not know this variable because it was a dynamic variable
* Editing is also somewhat nasty. I had some method calls where there were two string parameters. Removing the first string parameter would also remove the first `"` of the seconds string parameter when using the `BACKSPACE` key
* '<<' and '>>' are reported as syntax errors for e.g. adding entries to lists or for defining mocks in our spock test suite.
Are those bugs or features?
Anyway, most probably there's more... therefore I'll go back to 2018.1
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+1
I'm having a number of problems (bugs reported) with Groovy in 2018.x.x (and I've tried the .1 and .2 releases), including the underlining and << and >> issues described above.
Seems to have been a major regression in the Groovy plugin. Please make looking into this a priority. I know Groovy's not in fashion any more, but many of us still need to use it!