I can't tell you how many times I have almost walked away from IntelliJ because the autocomplete is broken (the only reason I stay with it is that Mac OS X GWT support in IntelliJ is much better than Eclipse). Please have someone on your staff use Eclipse's autocomplete and build up a list of all the GREAT autocomplete's they have done and make IntelliJ at least as good as that. ' simply don't work in all cases or at all. Simple stuff like only showing me Exceptions that are possible to be thrown when I auto-complete 'catch(.' or show me only classes or subclasses that are valid when I auto-complete 'BaseClass bc = new. The idea here is to make the IDE do the grunt work, NOT the lazy developers! Eclipse with Mylyn also has context about what I am working on and always gives me choices with ordering based on what I've used before, so it takes far fewer clicks to get what I need than in IntelliJ.įinally, the autocomplete is VERY POORLY implemented in IntelliJ. Eclipse FIGURES OUT what I am trying to complete and does the right thing for me EVERY TIME. Eclipse's 'one hot-key to rule them all' approach is FAR, FAR superior to the bewildering ctrl-space, ctrl-alt-space, ctrl-shift-space, apple-j, etc, etc keys that IntelliJ forces me to memorize for each context.

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