Cool! Glad to hear it.

On Dec 6, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote:

> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> 

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