List modern IntelliJ / P圜harm IDEs can perform block selection by: The commands for extended selection in IntelliJ / P圜harm are:ĬTRL+ SHIFT+ W Block and multiple selectionīlock selection is very useful feature for every text editor or IDE. This can be done very easily with extended selection.
You can select code based on the code syntax.
Install code glance plugin (code minimap) You can achieve similar feature in IntelliJ by using pluing named CodeGlance You can use it as scrollbar and change your current position in a file. This is a nice feature which is showing current file in small size window. If you have experience with Sublime you most probably know about the minimap. If you want to remove tabs in your IntelliJ you can do it by: But after some time spent with it you will find that is a lot easier and faster to work with several files without need for scrolling and searching tabs. This feature could be really confusing and even anti productive initially. You can select them in the project view and then to type: If you want to compare two files in P圜harm for example.
This is extremely helpful if you want to rewrite or use file as a reference.
You can open a code file in a separate window, then move it to another monitor and work with several windows simultaneously. if you want to open more than one project: Another point is that search and find are working only in the current project - this is better than eclipse way of opening all projects in a single window. The difference with Eclipse is that you are using different container for each project. You can work with several project at once in IntelliJ.
Open multiple projects and windows Open two projects visit site IDEA, Webstorm, P圜harm, RubyMine, PhpStorm and AppCode Color Themes.Popular plugin for adding themes and color schemes is: Install Material Theme UI. One of the way for adding new themes is by using plugins. IntelliJ install new themes/color schemes You can choose the theme at the first start of the program or change it later from: Windows / GTK+ - which is theme close to your OS view.Jetbrains products like IntelliJ has 3 themes by Default: IntelliJ install new themes/color schemesĬolor Scheme and Theme in IntelliJ/P圜harm IntelliJ change main theme/color scheme.IntelliJ change main theme/color scheme.Color Scheme and Theme in IntelliJ/P圜harm.Never thought I would get myself paying attention on such tips but now I feel much more productive when coding in IntelliJ/P圜harm. They are based mainly on my personal experience with both IntelliJ and P圜harm. This post contains some productivity, performance and code beautifying tips.