Here are a list of some of the best features I've seen in other
IDEs I've used -- roughly organized by how valuable I've found
them. (Apologies if people have already raised some of these, or
if I haven't yet discovered them yet)
High
- Ability to edit recompile classes while debugging and have the
changes hot-swapped in to the debugging app. (JDK 1.4 required
for this, I guess). Associated with this: editing of variables
while debugging and ability to restart any method in the stack
frame
- Ability to load every edited versions of methods, classes,
packages and projects. I know we can sort of do this through CVS
etc, but being able to do this more easily (auto commit on each
save, maybe, and a simplified menu to load a version)
- Multiple windows -- some people love em, some hate em. I use
big and multiple monitors, and having a single window is not
nearly as useful for me.
- Method level marking of modified code; eg the Structure pane
could turn methods blue or green, just like the CVS pane
Medium
- Double clicking a { or } selects the contents of the block.
Also works with " ' ( and [ delimiters.
- Ability to turn off qualified names when reporting errors
- Better Mac OS X support -- specifically menus that are in the
Mac menubar (when on the road my laptop runs out of vertical space
easily)
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