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Chris Smith

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Chris Smith commented, August 22, 2006 11:35
Maybe there was a rogue process that I didn't spot, but restarting my machine cured the problem. I can now compile.I still think it should be fixed though!
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Chris Smith created a post, August 22, 2006 11:17
Background compilation renders IntelliJ useless, please help!

I put a Rebuild Project into background mode just after starting it, but it seemed to cripple it. The child process was still running, but nothing appeared in the Messages window and the child pro...
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Chris Smith commented, June 01, 2006 16:29
Yes, I've tried using tabs. I thought that would solve it, but of course when I came to a file that was indented using spaces, they all got changed to tabs. I don't know whether the Eclipse users...
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Chris Smith commented, June 01, 2006 12:03
Thanks, I have tried that and it does work. However, it's not always possible to do that in other tools. For example, the command line "svn diff" doesn't appear to support ignoring whitespace cha...
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Chris Smith commented, June 01, 2006 10:38
BTW, I didn't mean this to turn into a rant. I'm sure there used to be some kind of setting in an older version to control this, but I can't find it now. Since nobody has pointed it out, I can on...
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Chris Smith commented, June 01, 2006 09:48
I'm not saying we don't have code conventions. We all follow pretty much the same layout, although nothing is enforced. We don't have a strict rule that says 'thou shalt always use tabs'. I see ...
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Chris Smith commented, May 31, 2006 17:18
Thanks for the replies, but neither option is viable.If I change my settings so I'm using tabs, the opposite happens - IntelliJ replaces all the spaces in the file with an appropriate number of tab...
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Chris Smith commented, May 19, 2006 09:12
Does anybody know how to stop the auto formatting then? This really should be a simple configuration option somewhere, but I can't find it.IDEA's basically reformatting all the whitespace in the f...
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Chris Smith created a post, May 16, 2006 10:23
Answered

IDEA makes annoying whitespaces changes

When I edit a file containing leading spaces rather than tabs, IDEA replaces the spaces with tabs whenever I do something like completing a word or generating an import statement.I'm sure there's a...
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