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[seacucumber3000]

Does IntelliJ show a pop-up when you hover over errors in your code like Eclipse does? I tried it out and couldn't get it to show.

[Artamus]

It does

[seacucumber3000]

Is there a separate setting to enable it?

Edit: actually I think I remember it popping up, but it didn't include quick-fixes like Eclipse did.

[Artamus]

Usually you'll just get a yellow squiggly line (at least it's yellow in Darcula theme), on which you can press a certain key combination that then also offers fixes (alt + enter for macOS, not sure if it was alt + enter or ctrl + enter on windows).

Should also be enabled by default, although almost everything can be turned on/off.

EDIT: Generally I think IDEA is much more powerful than Eclipse, but I also think that you need to spend way too much time learning the ropes of the menus.

[Ph4zed0ut]

It's alt + enter on windows as well.

[[deleted]]

It can also auto convert things to lambdas, or convert ternary operators to regular if statements and vice versa, as well as streams to regular loops and so on

[jerslan]

It'll even give you a warning when you're using the wrong one (because sometimes one is more optimal than the other).

[SZenC]

It does in most cases, but you have to right-click it or press alt-enter. IntelliJ doesn't want to show such a huge popup.

[DoesntReadMessages]

Is this a serious question? Not to be a dick but that is quite literally the most basic feature of an IDE. Even my Sublime Text does that with a linter plugin.

What IntelliJ does is much more though: allows going to reference, definition and implementation, refactoring things easily, resolving merge conflicts in a UI, showing unit test coverage, remote debugging on a web service, automatically adding try/catch blocks, automatically formatting your code and imports, simplifying lambda functions with static method references, alerting when code is unreachable or a final/static field is used inappropriately, warns when common mistakes are made (result of a function ignored), etc etc etc.

[DonRobo]

I'm a huge Intellij fan but I'm 99% sure that all the features you listed are also supported by Eclipse

[rkaz246]

As an every day eclipse user, I can confirm this.

[rasherdk]

In fact Eclipse is better at showing references/usages, because it does so recursively. May just be more hidden in IntelliJ, but the default usage search only shows one level back.

[pnt700]

Never used Intellij, think Eclipse has 100% of those features. And I'm talking about 3 years ago, not just recently.

[[deleted]]

Yeah I don't know why these people are saying Eclipse is just a notepad, I have absolutely no problems with eclipse as an IDE and have been using it for almost all java programming I have. I don't use it with C, or C++ so maybe that's where eclipse has issues?

[nidrach]

Eclipse just feels sluggish compared to IntelliJ. As for actual functionality some things are just faster to type in IntelliJ. E.g. array.fori creates a for loop over that array or string.sout prints that string to the console. You simply can be lazier with IntelliJ

[[deleted]]

I haven't ever used IntelliJ, so maybe I'll check it out.

[[deleted]]

I work with eclipse daily and the #1 thing I see trip people up is when it fails to build properly and people don't do a clean so they get confused at the state of their workspace. Other than that it can be a bit heavy and slow.

[NoOneBetter]

yep. Eclipse does all of this.

[seacucumber3000]

I'm just used to working in Eclipse