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Better Regular Expression Editing in JavaScript and ActionScript

June 3rd, 2009 by nicity

If you ever tried to understand or edit regular expression like this in JavaScript or ActionScript:
regular expression in JavaScript editor of IntelliJ IDEA 8
Then you are sure to find IntelliJ IDEA 9 a more helpful in this way. Now you can repeatedly press Ctrl+W to see non-capturing groups:
regular expression in JavaScript editor of IntelliJ IDEA 9
Plus, code completion after \ is also a bit smarter:
completion after \ in regular expression literal in JavaScript editor of IntelliJ IDEA 9

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2 Responses to “Better Regular Expression Editing in JavaScript and ActionScript”

  1. Evgeny Goldin Says:
    June 7th, 2009 at 6:04 am

    Will it only work for JavaScript or Java regexes are supported as well ?

  2. nicity Says:
    June 9th, 2009 at 3:35 am

    It works in Java already

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