The Intellij Database Navigator plugin is handy, but every character I type when entering SQL I get prompted with a list of idiotic and irrelevant "suggestions", which I then have to dismiss to see what I'm typing. This "feature" changes the simple task of typing SQL into an intensely annoying and painfully slow process.
How do I turn suggestions off?
Navigate to:
Preferences
+-> Tools
+-> Database Navigator
+-> Code Completion
In the "Filter" panel there, clear the "Basic code completion" and "Extended code completion" selectors by clicking them twice, so that nothing whatsoever remains active.
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I was trying to troubleshoot why my default settings. Settings values weren't updating. Visual Studio showed me a recommended fix of refactoring "MySettings" to "Settings" and now every reference to My.Settings is broken and the word settings has turned green (used to be white).
I tried just hitting the undo button, and then closing without saving. But it didn't fix anything. Makes me think it isn't a project issue but a VS2016 issue.
My.Settings.ActiveDrive = My.Settings.Default.ActiveDrive
My.Settings.Save()
This is the code I was altering. I was trying to error proof my code and reset the value to the default to simulate a new user with no saved settings yet. Then I switched Settings to MySettings to see if that'd do anything and VS asked if I wanted to refactor MySettings to just Settings. I said yes... And now the code is broken.
I just want Settings to go back to normal. The way it worked before I hit "refactor MySettings".
I was actually able to figure it out.
For anyone out there that runs into this issue in the future (Since I found 0 results on google about this), you simply go to your solution explorer in the top right, click the drop down icon next to Settings.settings, double click on Settings.Designer.vb, ctrl+f and search for "settings" and rename any class designated "Settings" result back to "MySettings". Don't rename the other "Settings" appearances otherwise it'll break again.
Then your code will go back to having a read-only "settings" option and a class option called "MySettings".
I learned to program 30 years ago with Emacs. I'm starting to learn moderns IDEs such as "IntelliJ IDEA", "PyCharm", and "VS Code".
It's hard to adjust to how visually "busy" they are, with constant pop-up menus appearing every character I type.
Of course I want to be able to get suggestions for completion or parameter hints or other popups when necessary. I just don't want them to appear by default.
Some people are asking why popups are annoying. The main problem is that popups cover code above or below where I'm typing.
Emacs has completion. But it doesn't need a popup. For instance, dynamic completion works just fine 90% of the time, even though it's not smart enough to parse syntax or look up function and method definitions.
So I'd like to know if there are settings in JetBrains or VS Code IDE's that would help.
I'm aware of two kinds of popups.
(1) An offer to complete my typing, which appears below.
(2) Annotation of argument names and definitions, which appears above.
There may be other popups as well.
I'm aware that a popup can be dismissed with ESC. But often they just come back the moment you type another character.
What would be great is if the popup would not appear by default, but I could cause it to appear with a single keystroke. Or I could dismiss it and it would stay dismissed.
For PyCharm You can also try writing in "Disctraction Free Mode"
View -> Enter Distraction Free Mode
Which should give you a little screen of calm which will feel a lot more like emacs to you.
It's possible to adjust the behaviour via "Settings".
In IntelliJ IDEA, goto Menu File --> Settings ... , then navigate to Editor --> General --> Code Completion , or type something in the search field (upper left).
Perhaps you find more settings when you browse through Settings dialog.
To be honest, I didn't make a lot of tests with these settings, because I find the helper popups very useful.
Another option to get rid of some "noise" is to adjust settings for displaying parameter names in the code editor.
I switched this off completely.
Go to Settings --> Editor --> General --> Appearance
The new IDEs are really busy looking for libraries, checking/auto closing balanced parentheses, indenting, surrounding methods/functions/procedures/classes as you type. Sometimes I feel the same, but these IDEs are not plain text editors anymore. Every key stroke triggers something which can be time consuming. When the project gets larger and when it has lots of libraries, it can get even slower. Some IDEs have options to turn some of these options off. Every feature turned off will have some positive effect on responsiveness to some degree
But I think, instead of turning these features off, the best way to have these features on a responsive modern IDE is to use a computer with a fast cpu, an ssd drive and sufficient memory.
This may be a simple and silly question, but searches thus far have only turned up how to turn this feature on and run it.
I am using FindBugs-IDEA in IntelliJ 2017. I ran a scan over my code to check see just how bad things were (they're bad). Fine and well, I will work on these later (I swear!) - but I want to remove ALL of the underlining and code inspections from the code editor - but I don't know how to remove them, or disable the findbugs' scan results once it has completed. Any idea?
I don't mind if it's permanent or temporary, I'll rerun the scan when I'm in a position to fix the bugs.
It seems there is a simple answer to this question: Just press the button with the red 'X'. This will make all FindBugs issues go away in the editor windows until you re-run the scan.
The tool window which contains this button may be called up by selecting View → Tool Windows → FindBugs-IDEA from the main menu. Hope this helps!
I am working with Itellij IDEA (2017.2.4). I am not sure whether the reason is new version of IDEA, but I started to face it after new version installed.
When I type some code in editor and Tooltip is shown (it can be inspection or just parameters of method shown ect.) I cannot type new symbols until pressing ESCAPE button, it is not useful for me. Before updating the IDEA there was behavior when user types new code, tooltip is hidden without ESCAPE pressing. It was made hidden by any key pressed.
Actually maybe I just change some setting property unconsciously, if yes - what is the property needed to be restored to default?
How to make it hidden not by ESCAPE but by any button?
In next image I pictured the moment when only ESCAPE key can be pressed.
I'm not able to reproduce the issue, even when I use v2017.2.4 on windows. The behavior should be that you can still type even when the tooltip is present:
I can't think of anything in terms of settings that could cause this issue. If it's just the "parameter info" tooltip that is causing the issue, you can disable it (or just increase the delay time) from automatically popping up via the setting: Settings > Editor > Code Completion > "Parameter Info" > "Autopopup" You can then manually open it via the Parameter Info Action via Ctrl+P / ⌘P. The setting #Maciej-Białorucki mentioned will effect the time before other tooltips open. Setting to a high value might help if other tooltips are causing issues.
Personally, I find the auto popup useful. To troubleshoot why this is causing issues, I'd recommend trying the following:
Upgrade to v 2017.2.6 which was released yesterday. While I personally can't reproduce it, and I'm not seeing anything about it in the 2017.2.5 Release Notes nor the 2017.2.6 Release Notes, it can't hurt to try and upgrade.
Disable all third party plugins and restart IDEA. See if the issue persists. In my 14 years of using IDEA and helping people with it on the forums, I've seen 3rd party plugins having bugs that cause other parts of IDEA to misbehave. Since you recently upgraded, it's possible a 3rd party plugin is having a compatibility issue with the new version. If the disabling them solves it, use a binary search to as you re-enable the plugins to track down the culprit and then report the bug to the plugin's developer.
See if it happens in other projects. If not there may be something wrong with the project's configuration. (A long shot. But worth checking out)
As another long shot, you can try invalidating the caches and then restarting IDEA via File > Invalidate Caches / Restart... I have on occasion over the years seen a corrupted index file or cache cause strange behavior.
If none of the above work, I suggest opening a bug report with JetBrains at: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com
Check Tooltip initial delay(ms) option under Appearance in Idea settings.
As I divined there was a property in settings that influences to the behavior described in a question. So to continue writing code without pressing ESCAPE key you must uncheck the following property:
Menu page Settings -> Appearance & Behavior -> System Settings
Checkbox Accessibility -> Support screen readers (requires start)
(for more details see the link)
I've recently been trying to compile several procedures and it all worked great, the compiler showed errors, I fixed them. All was working perfectly.
Except I accidentally clicked "x" instead of minimizing the compiler log tab and now it just won't show up again. I've tried Ctrl shift L, View > Log and nothing. So I'm not entirely sure what happened to it and I really need a fix for it to show messages/errors
We fixed it. Go into C:\Users\your user\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\system[version]\o.ide.[numbers]. There you will find a file called windowinglayoutdefauld.xml, you can delete that, restart SQL Developer and all settings will go back to default, with your compiler log!
A visual manual how to close and restore the compiler log window in Oracle SQL-Developer.
Click View/Log
And compiler window appears again
Next time try the menu item "Window > Reset Windows To Factory Settings"