I am testing Intelij right now and am impressed, but having to press ctrl-space (which I’ve been using for years for Quicksilver) just to view possible suggestions is enough to make me look elsewhere.

I need an IDE that I can crank out code in, not one that slows me down…

these features is nice and handy in lot of situations..

but.. in ALL situations you will be writing code and real power of auto-completion comes then it speeds you no matter what you type. Hare is my 2 most important auto-completion features… (I am in love with them so strong that I have trouble with any tool that don’t support them.)

1 - auto-completion ASAP !!!
that means you don’t have to press Ctrl+Space, application does it for you, it assumes you press it after ANY 2 letters and more are typed. it doesn’t wait for dot.. it doesn’t wait for ctrl+space. After first 2 letters are typed it starts hinting you in document scope, and if you press ctrl+space… its hints you in document+framework scope.
its speeds productivity so much.

2 - substring hinting, - (not only start of the method or function.)

imagine you have 3 methods… varLoad, xmlLoad, xmlParse. you can choose to type “xm” to get last 2 methods hinted… or start writing “lo” for “load” and have first 2 methods hinted…
again.. huge speed improvement. in not only removes the stress to remember how elements start, it gives possibility to communicate what you are trying to write with as less key presses as possible.

and then you are in ‘typing’ business… every key press counts.

does InteliJ has these powers? or plugin? or it su#s on that same way as eclipse…