Ask HN: Whats tools in my IDE am I not using enough?

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I personally use JetBrains but anything will do. Features that when you first figured out how to use them made you think "wow, how did I go without this?".

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Multicursor editing (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Multicursor.html) is something one usually doesn't find via menu items or stumble upon.

Though I knew this existed I never really considered its usefulness until now. Thanks for pointing it out

What IDE / language are you using?

I use JetBrains, but whatever anyone uses. I'm also curious what features might be in other suites that I don't have.

If you're not familiar with the local history feature, it's a game changer. I use it rather than starting a new branch for experimental code, it's huge -- much faster than git branching, and you can do incremental rewind. The edit history goes back pretty far too, it has saved me after more than one problematic rebase/merge.

Nice. I've never even clicked on Local History. Will look into it

I have been using VI for sometime now. I had used eclipse and restore from local history/cache was something I didn't realized till the IDE crashed and my code changes were gone. My coworker showed me that and I had a breath of relief.

VI has been fun for me. shitf+v and tab > for indenting was something I didn't new. I used to do == for line indentation.

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