I have IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3.2 on OSX.
I understand ⌥F12 allows us to toggle between embedded terminal and editor, but in this way the terminal disappears when focus moves to editor. Sometimes I'd like to switch focus from and to terminal with shortcut keys and still have the terminal opened so that I can tail logs.
My current workaround is to use both Terminal.app and IntelliJ IDEA and switch over by ⌘+Tab, but to me it's handy if I can do both in IntelliJ IDEA. Probably the embedded terminal and its use cases are designed to suite lightweight task that requires minimal attention, though.
Your problem here is that the ⌥+F12 shortcut isn't toggle focus, but toggle open. So essentially you are just opening and closing it.
After opening the terminal you should use the same command you use to switch between tabs in the editor (I believe it's ⌘+` on OSX).
Your window mode is correct though - docked mode keeps it attached to the side/bottom of the window, and pinned mode keeps it from collapsing when losing focus, so keep those set.
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I'm trying to use the WSL console in Windows 10 (version 1909) for some development work, but I find that often running processes will simply appear to have hung, but when I send a keystroke to the terminal it will update back to the bash terminal (as if had completed all along but hadn't updated).
I am running the latest version of the debian package from the store.
Is there anyway to make this problem go away or am I wasting my time trying to use the default terminal?
Just a hunch, but I am guessing you are ending up in select mode. If you click anywhere in the terminal the title of the window will change to be prefixed with "select" and the terminal output will freeze so that you can select text without it changing while you try to highlight it. Pressing any key will cause you to exit select mode.
If this bothers you you can turn it off by right clicking on the title bar, clicking properties, and disabling quick-edit mode. Alternately, might I recommend the new Windows terminal, which handles selection and the clipboard in a more intuitive way.
I recently upgraded Intellij Ultimate to 2018.1 on Windows 10 and I experienced Keyboard issues when I run consoles in Floating Mode. The keyboard doesn't work in the main window (Backspace and Esc keys are always ignored, other keys are often ignored)
Steps to reproduce:
Open a console (Sql, Tomcat, ..) in floating mode
After a while the main window become partially or completely unresponsive
Backspace doesn't work in the editor on the main window (for example editing a java class)
Mouse doesn't work on the main window
Sometimes all keys don't work (you cannot write in the main window)
The main window top bar flickers
Sometimes intellij gets completely stuck and I need to kill it
Dock the console to the main window or make it windowed
Situation is back to normal
Antlr4 on Windows 7.
Facing issue when running "TestRig with -gui option at cmd with administrative privilege"
CLASSPATH is set as advised on ANtlr site.
"-tokens" and "-tree" TestRig options work fine but "-gui" fails.
With '-gui' switch, parse tree inspector is seen in background but it does'nt pop up and hangs.
Snapshot attached:
Apparently the window containing the tree is not visible or is too small. Hit ctrl + right click then maximize. Not sure why windows does that.
This works for me:
Leave the mouse over the Java icon until the small preview window appears, then move to it, right click and choose the maximize option.
demo
Just wait a couple minutes and right-click on the Java window (the interface which shows the tree) and choose Minimize.
I'm a frontend developer and I have a multi-monitor setup. I have HTML code on one monitor and CSS code on another monitor.
To achieve that, I drag a tab out of IntelliJ IDEA window, so that the tab opens in a separate window.
My problem is that the secondary window lacks a menu:
Menu access hot keys (e.g. Alt+V) won't work. I can't make use of the main window's menu either because when I click it, the focus switches to the active tab of the main window.
How do I access the menu when I'm working in IDEA's secondary window?
This feature is currently not available in IntelliJ IDEA.
The alternatives I could think of to do what you want:
Consider raising a feature request on http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/
Do you think it's possible that you might not miss the menu on the detached tab if instead of accessing functionality through the menu, you did the same through keyboard shortcuts?
Personally, being a keyboard junkie, I have not felt the lack of a menu on the detached tab.
Even though Eclipse allows you to create a new window for the same workspace, I had some issues with it ( for eg: if you set a breakpoint in a file in Window 1, and started a debug session from Window 2, then the file would be re-opened in Window 2 when the breakpoint is hit) and feel that the Intellij IDEA implementation works better.
(Warning! The most Hacky suggestion) Assuming you are using Windows, there are a number of ways in which you could extend the single IntelliJ window across the two monitors and then instead of detaching a tab, you could do a 'Split Vertically' in that single window. With the slider between the tabs positioned just right, it will seem you have two windows opened with each of them having a menu.
To extend a window across two monitors see : How can you maximize a window on to dual monitors in Windows 7 or use one of the multi-monitor tools listed here or here ( I vaguely recall that it was the latter 'zbar' that I used to extend a window during my eclipse days).
Believe it or not, I have done this with Eclipse when I was sick of guessing where the file-with-the-breakpoint would open up :)
I'm currently trying to workaround some apparent shortcomings of cocoa touch application tests in Xcode 4 (see this related question). Since failures of application tests are not highlighted in the editor window like failures of logic tests, I find myself using the mouse to scroll through the output window to see the results of failed tests.
I would prefer to use keyboard commands if possible to quickly look at the results of the tests and then quickly move back to the editor. Are there some keyboard shortcuts in Xcode 4 for maximizing and minimizing the output window?
It looks like Command+Shift+Y opens and closes the debug area, but I don't know of a keyboard shortcut to maximize it.
Here's a nice cheat sheet you can print out with lots of keyboard shortcuts.
I haven't found a direct shortcut, but along with Jose Ibanez shortcut, here are some relevant ones.
Cmd+0 Toggle left pane
Cmd+Alt+0 Toggle right pane
Cmd+Shift+Y Toggle bottom pane