How to find where the hangup is?
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I am working with a plugin for another language, and I find that sometimes while using it, IntelliJ IDEA simply seizes up. It will not respond to _any_ UI input, typing, menu selection, etc. My only recourse is to Force-kill IntelliJ and restart it. It seems to be related to editing certain files, and maybe certain areas of them. Since I've never seen IntelliJ this unstable normally, I assume it's the specific plugin dealing with this language.
I've set up the IJ to debug this plugin. The question is, if IJ hangs while under debug what's the best way to find the cause. Are there specific threads I should be looking at?
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Check the logs folder for auto-generated threadDumps https://jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/basics/ide_development_instance.html#development-instance-settings-caches-logs-and-plugins
Thanks. That made it much easier. Which leads me now to the next turtle in the problem. It appears some "things" are getting stuffed into the index inappropriately, And, for some problems, it seems to be non-deterministic. Can you point me at more info on how to debug index contents? Is there an "index browser" or something like that available?
Sorry, this got lost. Yes, there is https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13029-indices-viewer that allows browsing indexes contents.