I'm looking to a nice shortcut to open an external tool and everything easy seems like it is in use?
Is there a list somewhere of shortcuts reserved for users to add. Maybe just one so that I can use that as the first keystroke and have second keystrokes available to map a wide range of things.
Also if you have one you like to use to open vim let me know.
There are no shortcuts in IntelliJ IDEA which are intentionally reserved for users to use in their own keybindings. I don't think there's any good solution to get the list of shortcuts which are currently unused.
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I don't see anything in the right-click menu that will give me this. I always have to write it manually
Are you asking about button#checkout.button-1.checkout-button? If so, I'm not aware of a way to copy-paste this, or a name for it, but it is constructed with the format
htmlTag#idOfElement.class.with.periods.instead.of.spaces
It is pretty commonly a unique selector for the element in question.
I use PhpStorm for many years and for all this time the search results for "Search Everywhere" were separated in "Chapters" for Classes, Files, Actions and so on, as its shown in this screenshot (from the internet).
But recently I noticed that these "chapters" are gone and everything is just mixed together without any separation.
Now its very difficult for me to find what I'm looking for. I searched everywhere in the settings but couldn't find any options to bring back those chapters.
Am I missing something or is this feature just gone?
I'm using PhpStorm 2020.3.2.
Thank you very much for your help.
The behavior can be enabled back by disabling search.everywhere.mixed.results in Registry. To access it open Help > Find Action and type "Registry".
Can't remember when, but a while ago IntellIJ started to show suggestions in the autocomplete suggestions that seem off topic. Very often the "wrong" suggestion gets to the top of the list and ends up in the code. This starts to get annoying. ;-)
I wonder where it is coming from (what language is it?) and why does it shows up editing java files?
Example:
Starting to type, CTRL+Space, suggests:
Pressing Enter inserts:
This is just a single example it happens here and there.
Seems you have some non-default live templates configured? E.g. in this example the template has the fina abbreviation.
Delete them from your configuration for the IDE not to offer them in completion.
A few years back i worked in a company where i could press CTRL+T and a TODO-comment was generated - say my ID to be identified by other developers was xy45 then the generated comment was:
//TODO (xy45):
Is something available from within Intellij 14 Ultimate or did they write their own plugin for it?
What i tried: Webreserach, Jetbrais documentations - it looks like its not possible out of the box (i however ask before i write a plugin for it) or masked by the various search results regarding the TODO-view (due to bad research skills of mine).
There is no built-in feature in IntelliJ IDEA to generate such comments, so it looks like they did write their own plugin.
Found something that works quite similar but is not boundable to a shortcut:
File -> Settings -> Live Templates
I guess the picture says enoth to allow customization (consult the Jetbrains documentation for more possibilities). E.g. browse to the Live Template section within the settings, add a new Live Template (small green cross, upper right corner in the above picture) and set the context where this Live Template is applicable.
Note: Once you defined the Live Template to be applicable within Java (...Change in the above image where the red exclamation marks are shown) context you can just type "t", "todo" and hit CTRL+Space (or the shortcut you defined for code completion).
I suggest to reconsider using that practice at all. Generally you should not include redundant information which is easily and more reliably accessible through your Version Control System (easily available in Idea directly in editor using Annotate feature). It is similiar to not using javadoc tag #author as the information provided with it is often outdated inaccurate and redundant. Additionaly, I don´t think author of TODO is that much valuable information. Person who will solve the issue will often be completly different person and the TODO should be well documented and descriptive anyway. When you find your own old TODO, which is poorly documented, you often don't remember all the required information even if you were the author.
However, instead of adding author's name, a good practice is to create a task in you issue management system and add identifier of this task to the description of the todo. This way you have all your todos in evidence at one place, you can add additional information to the task, track progress, assign it etc. My experience is that if you don´t use this, todos tend to stay in the code forever and after some time no one remembers clearly the details of the problem. Additionaly, author mentioned in the todo is often already gone working for a different company.
Annotated TODO with issue ID
There is the simple interpretive programming language and, actually, console interpreter.exe.
Need to make colorizing of syntax, autocomplete and executing by press F5.
(if it is possible to make 'debug' - that will be awesome!)
I never did such things.
There are many IDE, which allow to add lang.: eclipse, NetBeans, emacs, ...
But I did not found complete instruction to add or they are ununderstandable.
What IDE is best to use? to add lang. as easy as possible?
(it will be cool, if IDE can work in Windows)
How to add my language there?
Please, if it is possible to give complete instruction.
Depending on how far you really want to go there are multiple options:
Dumb Autocompletion for text editors:
There are editors like scite aka Notepad++, that take a simple textfile with all the keywords to give you autocompletion, but they don't take into account the syntax nor the context. All they do is to highlight the words they know (e.g. you have given to them) and to autocomplete just these terms.
Smarter Syntax Highlighting:
This would require you to get used to the tools lex and yacc, if we are talking open source. I don't know which proprietary source tools are out there. If you want to get into that, there are several good pages on that topic, and this is one of them.
Compile it all the time:
A simple but effective method for small projects would be just to compile it once every few seconds, and interpret the output. This would be the messy version, but might be fun to look into.
The documentation for adding a new editor to Eclipse looks fairly straightforward:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_write_an_editor_for_my_own_language%3F
This covers syntax color highlighting and autocomplete. I imagine you can also create a launch profile in the same plugin