Am I the only one to be annoyed by the immediate reaction of the Intellij editor while editing code ?

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First and foremost, I'd like to make sure to anyone reading this post, that I like Intellij a lot and find it a very nice product for java developers.
But lately I'm getting more and more annoyed about slowdown in the editor, like the editor is freezing, seemingly not reacting to key events and at the same time, the editor immediately giving feedback on code modifications, like when defining a new local variable or adding new parameter to a method, the editor is directly putting the focus and highlighting the new parameter or local variable because the parameter is still unused. Or modifying a function to modify the return value  or return value type of a method, immediately catching my focus on because something is wrong in the code, just to realize, duh I'm just trying to modify the code, I can't type faster that the computer can check my code.
Why would someone want the editor to give more priority to code check that to reacting to the keystrokes a user is entering ?
I've search for options to delay code feedback while editing, but this doesn't exists.
I'm sorry, but I have to say that for me a good code editor should give focus to the user and not give focus on giving feedback inconsistenties of code that is being currently modified. I think that while the user is modifying code, the priority should be put into executing the users command and not validating user's code. Of course validation can be done in the background as long as this can be preempted and the focus can keep being the user focused. Also please don't bother a user with immediate feedback on code changes which affect the local scope being edited.
Maybe add a configurable parameter to delay the feedback when after the modification is paused for a certain amount of time.
For me the behavior of the editor is sometimes more harmful than helping.

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Hi Sledent,
The behavior described may be related to Settings | Editor | Code Editing | Error highlighting | Autoreparse delay, which controls how long IntelliJ IDEA waits after a code change before it starts rehighlighting. (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/code-editing.html)
Could you please share the value set for this parameter on your side?

Additionally, please share some details for further investigation of the issue:

  1. Collect IDE logs via Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data after reproducing the issue and upload them securely to our server https://uploads.jetbrains.com/ and provide us with the Upload ID. The uploaded data will be accessible only to our team and will be used solely for investigating this issue. So we can check more information about your IDE and environment.
  2. Share the approximate project size, JDK version and vendor.

Thanks in advance!

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