hi.
I have to things today... ok it's really a bunch:

1.I don't care much for method separators in the editor... I find that
comments(/** */) usually handle this job pretty well
but..
on the other hand, method separators would be great in the right hand
margin. 


2. I have come to think about development as being one of two
super-tasks: exploration and construction. 
construction is the fun part where you start with a blank editor and
code, possibly also refactoring even though refactoring is sometimes
mind numbing.
Exploration is when you look for bugs, do code clean-up,try to
understand what the hell an other programmer has done, or even what the
hell you did many month ago when you wrote some code.

I wish IDEA focused a bit more on the Exploration aspect of
development... because those are lacking: Here are some examples
-provide some use-case-like tool to find execution paths through the
code
-add more functionality to the bookmarks so that we can actually
annotate them(not just write a 1 line note) and view them more easily.
Possibly even group them.
-provide a single tree view of the whole project where all source,
classes, jars and zips, etc. are in one structure. The projects I work
on tend to have source spread over many directories and libraries and
having one structure to look through would be great. 
-be able to select windows to keep open, and windows to discard as you
Browse (ctrl-B) the code.
-Allow disabling of Classepath and Sourcepath without removing in
project options.
-provide more details in search results so we do not have to always open
an  object to understand context.

Anyway... my point is more code exploration tools please.

what do you guys think?

Florian Hehlen.




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