How often do you use ‘Go To Class/File/Symbol’ feature in IntelliJ IDEA? Pretty often I would guess. But do you know everything you can do with it? Let me go through a couple of often overlooked gems.
Do you know that when you search for file or class you can preview an image (Ctrl-Shift-I) or see a quick doc (Ctrl-Q)?
It is also possible to open multiple items in the editor (multiselect with Ctrl or Shift) or run multiple selected tests right from the search (Ctrl-Shift-F10).
And you can open all search results in the ‘Find’ tool-window to process them one by one later.
Did I mention your favorite feature? No? Please, share it with everyone!
When working with big projects we always come back to 10-20 items/files where we do the most of our work.
IntelliJ IDEA helps you collecting all these items in one place — ‘Favorites’. It’s easy to add a file, a class or a method to the Favorites by simply pressing Alt+Shift+F. You can also drag and drop items to the Favorites.
And now with ‘Favorites’ being a separate tool-window, just press Alt+2 (or Cmd+2) whenever you need to access one of your precious items again.
We’ve slightly redesigned Navigation Bar and added some new sweet features. Watch this short demo for the details and a general overview of NavBar abilities.
1. Better navigation between xml configs and annotated stereotype components
2. Advanced usage search for @Autowired beans
3. More inspections for your configs, for instance, deprecated classes and members highlighting.
4. More powerful placeholder support. All spring model inspections get and analyze placeholder values before highlighting.
5. More clear Bean Dependencies Graph view. For instance, it obtains beans and dependencies from custom namespaces. Check out this spring integration schemas example.
Since the latest IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 EAP the IDE contains a bit of new Maven-related pom.xml editor features.
1. Easier Navigation
You can navigate to “Dependency usages” from “dependencyManagement” of your parent pom.xml:
and back:
You can navigate through projects tree
2. Smarter Paths
‘Path reference’ notion were added to the editor to enhance the code completion, usages search and rename refactoring of project paths.
3. More intelligent plugins configuration
IntelliJ IDEA analyses plugin parameter types and adds smart value editors for plugin configuration tags.
Instead of wasting your time searching the menus and toolbars in an attempt find out that action you need right now, use the Find Action command (Ctrl+Shift+A) to quickly locate what you need. It works just like Go to Class:
IntelliJ IDEA can help you to analyze and quickly navigate to components in your Web Beans project via dedicated tool window that shows custom annotations grouped by type.
To change settings of a module that hosts the file you are currently editing, just press Alt+F1, 7 or open the View menu, select Select In and click Project Structure.
IntelliJ IDEA will open the Project Structure dialog and jump to the required module.
This action works for files from libraries and JDK, too, and is available in every view that lists files — Project View, Changes tool window and so on.
