Can't help but join in and give my IJ testimonial and/or Eclipse FUD, depending on which one you use. :-)
I'm like Ted, I've got 10+ years of IJ keymappings in my fingers. I just find IJ feels like it was done by people who get how programmers want to work. For instance, I was looking up Mahout files w/ a user in Eclipse the other day. We knew what the file name was. That seemingly simple act in IJ is one shortcut (apple-n) plus 2 or 3 letters (the first few letters of the name, else the "inner caps" of the name, i.e. typing "EDM" gets me the EuclideanDistanceMeasure -- note, this also works for symbol names and regular file names, albeit w/ slightly different shortcuts). Him doing it in Eclipse involved at least four mouse clicks to get to the search menu, etc. and then typing out the name of the class. It was painful. Of course, there may be shorter ways, but as a long time Eclipse user, this user didn't know them. I found that sad, as it was literally the difference between 2-3 seconds versus 30-60 seconds (including the search time) in Eclipse just to find one file that we already knew the name of but not the package. Multiply that by the number of times you look up a file in a day. YMMV and perhaps it is FUD, but that has been my observation of most Eclipse users. I also find in trainings that I give, Eclipse users always struggle with project setup. Now, this could be because of my IJ bias, but it just doesn't seem to be as intuitive to them to get started, even though both sets of users start from the same base. FWIW, IntelliJ has an "Eclipse" keymap mode. Go to the IJ settings (preferences). Choose Keymap. Choose Eclipse. They also have Netbeans, Emacs and JBuilder. In other words, your 10 years of Eclipse may not be wasted. Last but not least, ASF committers can get the full version of IJ for free for open source work. And no, I am not a paid spokesperson for IJ! -Grant On Dec 6, 2011, at 12:59 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote: > M2e plugin never worked fir me. Instead, i just use eclipse maven plugin to > genrate eclipse projects and paths. > > Of course full fledged compilation is always maven native. But eclipse > incremental compiler works too and it is fast. > > Never had any problems with the scheme. > On Dec 5, 2011 12:52 PM, "Ted Dunning" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Let me know how the IntelliJ generated eclipse files work for you. It >> would be humorous if IntelliJ gave us better eclipse support than eclipse. >> >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Jeff Eastman <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> If a little tune-up of our Eclipse configs is in order I'd like to learn >>> more about them so I can dig into it. I have almost full time to work on >>> this right now. >>> >>
