Comments on: IntelliJ IDEA Feedback Wanted http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/ tips & tricks, news, how-to's Wed, 16 May 2012 21:08:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Mark Krasny http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-185337 Mark Krasny Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:39:32 +0000 http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-185337 I have been using IntelliJ for a couple of months and the feature I miss most of all is the behavior of the editor tabs that I had in Eclipse. The most I could do was to set them in a single row [like in Eclipse] - otherwise they take up space and jump around which makes my head spin. Eclipse however, does a much smarter job selecting which tabs are visible and in which order. Opening a new file it would never replace the last active one - something that Idea does all the time which is most annoying. Also the drop down in Eclipse allows to close tabs without first selecting them. Anyway, why don't you guys take a look and copy the tab behavior from eclipse. It doesn't have to be the default, but at least a possibility. You've done a great job. Could you do even better? I have been using IntelliJ for a couple of months and the feature I miss most of all is the behavior of the editor tabs that I had in Eclipse. The most I could do was to set them in a single row [like in Eclipse] - otherwise they take up space and jump around which makes my head spin. Eclipse however, does a much smarter job selecting which tabs are visible and in which order. Opening a new file it would never replace the last active one - something that Idea does all the time which is most annoying. Also the drop down in Eclipse allows to close tabs without first selecting them.
Anyway, why don’t you guys take a look and copy the tab behavior from eclipse. It doesn’t have to be the default, but at least a possibility. You’ve done a great job. Could you do even better?

]]> By: chuck hutchinson http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-19463 chuck hutchinson Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:05:17 +0000 http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-19463 on your merge tool please put two options 1) one option which will allow me to either accept all changes from the configuration management tool overwriting all of my local changes. 2) one option which will allo me to overwrite my changes over what comes back from the configuration management tool. Here is the reason why - during development we work in a team environment where several people may be working on the exact same thing at the exact same time. When the first person finds a solution, they will check it in, and the others will use their changes. That is, they won't want to merge ANY of their changes but want to get what is on the main trunk. Also to be honest, I am not sure if I have the latet now - now I need to go out to the operating system do an rm -fr *, get everything out again..... Sorry about dumping on you guys but this part of your tool is extremely frustraing to the point where I don't want to use it... Have a good day :) on your merge tool please put two options

1) one option which will allow me to either accept all changes from the configuration management tool overwriting all of my local changes.

2) one option which will allo me to overwrite my changes over what comes back from the configuration management tool.

Here is the reason why - during development we work in a team environment where several people may be working on the exact same thing at the exact same time. When the first person finds a solution, they will check it in, and the others will use their changes. That is, they won’t want to merge ANY of their changes but want to get what is on the main trunk.

Also to be honest, I am not sure if I have the latet now - now I need to go out to the operating system do an rm -fr *, get everything out again…..

Sorry about dumping on you guys but this part of your tool is extremely frustraing to the point where I don’t want to use it…

Have a good day :)

]]> By: chuck hutchinson http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-16426 chuck hutchinson Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:42:06 +0000 http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-16426 There are two features that I would really love to have on intellij. 1) They are a "force get all" what this would do is to blow away *everything* on the local hard drive for your project and then do a clean get from the repository. To do this now I have to click on a bunch of different things, like update file and then revert file. 99% of the time I need to do a clean get and I don't have time to play with all of the options to figure out to get this to work. My work around now is to go out to the operating system prompt and do somethng like rm -fr * which works like a champ! 2) The other thing is to build a merge utility which would force my changes ontop of the other changes that have occured. I have been using intellij for about a month now and each time I have conflicts I dont have a clue how to use your tool to merge my changes which makes your merging tool useless. Also put the force clean get option (outlined above) on the merge utility. If these options aren't present on the next version - we will use eclipse! Thanks There are two features that I would really love to have on intellij.

1) They are a “force get all” what this would do is to blow away *everything* on the local hard drive for your project and then do a clean get from the repository. To do this now I have to click on a bunch of different things, like update file and then revert file.

99% of the time I need to do a clean get and I don’t have time to play with all of the options to figure out to get this to work.

My work around now is to go out to the operating system prompt and do somethng like rm -fr * which works like a champ!

2) The other thing is to build a merge utility which would force my changes ontop of the other changes that have occured. I have been using intellij for about a month now and each time I have conflicts I dont have a clue how to use your tool to merge my changes which makes your merging tool useless. Also put the force clean get option (outlined above) on the merge utility.

If these options aren’t present on the next version - we will use eclipse!

Thanks

]]> By: Egor Malyshev http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-3990 Egor Malyshev Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:37:11 +0000 http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-3990 I want to say that I am impressed with how many emails I have received regarding this survey. I am very grateful to everybody who contributes his feedback and helps us to improve our favorite IDE. And I want to add that we're still gathering the information, so if you haven't participated yet, you're definitely welcome. I want to say that I am impressed with how many emails I have received regarding this survey. I am very grateful to everybody who contributes his feedback and helps us to improve our favorite IDE. And I want to add that we’re still gathering the information, so if you haven’t participated yet, you’re definitely welcome.

]]> By: Sandy McArthur http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-3900 Sandy McArthur Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:06:55 +0000 http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-3900 Sounds like a plugin idea for someone to write. :-) Sounds like a plugin idea for someone to write. :-)

]]> By: DK http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-3881 DK Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:22:36 +0000 http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/intellij-idea-feedback-wanted/#comment-3881 http://intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=5158539 http://intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=5158539

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