IntelliJ IDEA 8 Will Kill the EncodingPlugin

…which is a good thing.
I just read the post New Approach to Encoding in IntelliJ IDEA, which outlines new features in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA version 8 with respect to file encoding. It has long time been a problem, that IDEA only had an IDE-level setting for encoding of files. It was this problem, that [...]

May 19, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tools  No Comments

Kudos To JetBrains and Open Source

It is absolutely great, that JetBrains has open sourced a great deal of their plugins!
Today, I installed the latest and greatest Selena EAP (early access) version of IntelliJ IDEA, to get some of the latest flex plugin features. Sadly, my ruby plugin then got turned off, as it was not built for the latest IDEA [...]

February 29, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tools  2 Comments

Using IDEA Quicklists Instead Of Keybindings to Everything

I just did a new installation on a completely new box, and had to configure IDEA from bottom up. On of the things I needed, was to add some keybindings for some features I use all the time. But in the process, I saw something new (to me)–quicklists. In Settings, General chose Keymap. You will [...]

January 10, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Tools  2 Comments