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Editors & IDEs

Editors

  • ViM - vi improved
    • vi is the core editor available on every unix system
    • basic knowledge of vi is a core skill for all unix / linux server administrators
    • tonnes of plugins, highly extensible and widely used
    • see my advanced .vimrc for all sorts of trips & tricks, hotkey linting and building, plugins etc.
  • Emacs - the other classic unix editor
  • Nano - simple editor, used by people scare of vi
  • Pico - simple editor from which Nano was forked

ViM

See vim.md.

IDEs

  • IntelliJ IDEA - the modern popular IDE - proprietary but has a free version
    • PyCharm - Python only cousin of IDEA
  • Eclipse - open source IDE. Most prefer IntelliJ as it's slicker

Editor Config

  • .editorconfig - standard config file that many editors will read, including GitHub for displaying the README. md in the repo home page

Misc IDE Notes

IntelliJ IDEA

Get plugins:

  • SonarLint
  • Python
  • Scala
  • SBT
  • BashSupport
  • Ruby
  • Cypher (Neo4J)
  • Pig
  • Go
Manual Installation

Can download zips + install off disk where proxy blocked.

Zips must align to IntelliJ version.

See

Expression Evaluation

Productivity Guide (tracks how often you use each shortcut)

Keyboard Shortcuts

Alternative Keys when you see Windows vs Mac keyboard shortcuts:

Windows Mac
Ctrl Cmd
Alt Option
Ctrl-Alt Cmd-Option
Command Description
Cmd-; Project Dialog configure JDK
Cmd-, Settings dialogue
Ctrl-Shift-T detect + put handlers around select code block
Ctrl-Alt-T select, Ctrl-W (to increase selection), Right-click -> Surround With -> if, try/catch (finds + adds all exceptions), synchronized ...
Ctrl-W increase selection
Ctrl-N open class by name
Ctrl-Shift-N open file by name
Ctrl-Space autocomplete
Alt-F7 find all places class/variable/method under cursor is used
Ctrl-Q show doc for class/method under cursor
Ctrl-B jump to declaration
Ctrl-Alt-B jump to Abstract Method's implementation
Ctrl-F6 rename all locations of selected variable/method/class (Refactor -> Rename)
Ctrl-F12 show methods of class to jump to
Ctrl-Shift-Space prompt for available methods/variables or objects of type if type specified on left
Ctrl-P in parens() opens pop-up list of valid parameters
Ctrl-I implements methods for class interface
Ctrl-O overrides method of class
Alt-Insert / Code -> Generate creates setters + getters
Shift-F1 / View -> External Document opens in browser

Code completion Tab to replace rest of name rather than Enter

Set Web Browser

Defaults to following the system default browser.

IntelliJ -> Settings -> Tools -> Web Browsers and Preview

Distraction Free Mode

Hides all bars, max code space

View -> Appearance -> Enter Distraction Free Mode

Eclipse

F3 on a class to go it it's definition

Next / Previous Tab - Fn-Ctrl-Left / Fn-Ctrl-Right

Shortcut Description
sysout -> Ctrl-Space Fills in the common System.out.println in Java
Right-click -> Source -> Generate Getters & Setters
default package -> Right-click -> Export -> Java -> JAR file

Eclipse -> Preferences (Mac):

Window -> Preferences:

  • Maven
    • untick - Do not automatically update dependencies from remote repositories
    • tick - Download repository index updates on startup

Eclipse JSONTools validation plugin (Help -> MarketPlace), but needs files to be .json (not .template from CloudFormation)

IntelliJ also has JSON error validation, but it's not as good as it's hard to see underscores not the big red cross eclipse puts in the left column.

Eclipse Plugins

  • CheckStyle
  • Cucumber
  • PMD
  • Findbugs
  • CodeTemplates
  • Mylyn
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