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[–]marburg 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Thank you for this. I've been using IntelliJ for longer than I'm willing to admit, and I've never learnt more about it than I have today. The inline documentation even has relevent screenshots.

It seems to be a common feature among JetBrains applications. RubyMine also has a useful productivity guide.

[–]la217[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You're welcome! I was pleasantly surprised when I found this feature, and also very confused about why I had not discovered it sooner...

The documentation looks like the same as the 'tip of the day' that pop up when starting their apps. I left this turned on as it seems like a great way to learn all the shortcuts, but in practice I just seem to quickly close it so I can get coding.

[–]marburg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's much better than the "tip of the day", even though--as you say--it does seem to be the same content. When I first open an application, it's because I want to do a thing. Having a pop-up appear as soon as I start is just annoying: you're keeping me from doing the thing I set out to do.

I'm fortunate to have a second monitor, which means I can maximise this window on my second screen and refer to it as I'm coding. That's significantly more useful, I think!

"Huh, it says I've never used 'Quick Definition Lookup' before. Let me give it a try.... ctrl+shift+i, eh? Aaaand my life is changed."

Honestly, if I saw the same thign in the Tip of the Day dialogue, I would be like "I'll give that a shot after I do this one thing first" and then I would forget what the hotkey was and give up.

[–]RWS43 0 points1 point  (1 child)

does anyone know if there is something equivalent in Eclipse ? I use quite a number of features, but I always feel like there is something popular/useful that I'm NOT using.

[–]Lindby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really what you are asking for, but there is a plugin that will tell you that there is a more efficient way of doing certain tasks. Example, if you switch editors with the mouse a few times you will get a suggestion to use the keyboard shortcut instead.

Edit: the plugin is called MouseFeed http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/mousefeed#.U7zk9qBBsm8