finding a (java) type in eclipse: ctrl-shift-T. Finding a resource (i.e. file) : ctrl-shft-R. Experience is virtually identical to IJ's. :)
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >>>> >>> > >
