> Similarly, I never type "for (int i = 0; i < blah; i++)." I type "cmd-J, fori, return." Etc....
As someone who didn't realize this existed in Intellij, I think you may have just changed my life :)
As someone who didn't realize this existed in Intellij, I think you may have just changed my life :)
There's no need for Cmd-J, just write a few characters and press TAB. Try "sout"<TAB>, "psvm"<TAB>, "iter"<TAB>, "itli"<TAB>, and so on.
A couple years later when Eclipse came out I told a coworker this anecdote and he joked that it was 'main' + ctrl-spacebar followed by 'sysout' + ctrl-spacebar. I lol'd.
Best shortcut that every IntelliJ user should know is "Find Action" (ctrl + shift + a on Win), press and start typing what you want to do. Will even present shortcuts in the list for next time.
And as the article points out, for readability, verbosity is arguably a good thing. I sure believe it is, perhaps because I am more distracted by poor symbol selection and syntax than most programmers I know. Speaking of, I don't particularly like the C-lineage syntax, Java included. I don't like the braces and parentheses. I prefer a syntax with fewer symbols and more keywords. Crazy, I know.
The worst offender in Java are IMO anonymous inner classes. But IntelliJ shows them abbreviated. E.g. IIRC Runnables are displayed in Java 8 lambda syntax.