For whatever reason, Intellij is highlighting the wrong bracket pair:
Intellij highlighting wrong bracket pair
Yet it works in any other text editor on the same exact code:
Vim highlighting correct bracket pair
For almost every bracket, Intellij either highlights the wrong pair or doesn't highlight at all. This issue is unusual, so I'm not sure where to look into it. I've tried testing the bracket matching on all kinds of code in Intellij and it almost always highlights the wrong pair. I also reinstalled Intellij but that did not fix it. I'm using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2020.3.1 x64
I figured out what's wrong. It turns out the reason this happens is because Intellij Community Edition doesn't support Javascript. So I installed the Ultimate Edition which does support Javascript, and it works now:
Intellij Ultimate highlights bracket pair correctly
I just downloaded the Complete version of IntelliJ,
I imported my settings from the community version.
I checked in the editor tab settings, nothing craz going on.
I tried changing the position but still it had issues...
But my editor tabs are not showing correctly, cany anyone help?
Ahh, this was fixed with an update to the Materials Plugin. Make sure to keep updated!
This is freaking annoying me. I don't know which option do this, but it is really bothering me so much.
The problem is that WebStorm add a "virtual" space after each text like function or object (picture 1). You can see it because clearly in the highlight text (picture 2).
Also, when I am writing on a line, the text is push right to the caret (picture 3)
I want to know which option is it, to disable it.
There is an open issue for this problem:
IDEA-154843 There is a space coming between cursor and the next letter when typing or the cursor is moved.
It definitely helps to select a different font, but reinstalling the latest version of Source Code Pro font may also help.
UPDATE:
It should be already fixed in latest 2017.1 builds.
Thanks the tip from user #yole & user #LazyOne, the problem was the font "Source Code Pro". Changing the font, solve the problem.
As user #CrazyCoder has link this question to an open bug, the next is information for Jetbrains Developers.
SO: MacOS 10.12.1
WebStorm version: 2016.3.4 (Download it on 8th March 2017)
WebStorm plugins: None.
I'm using IntelliJ IDEA on my Mac to work on a project, and I keep on coming across an issue where I can't type. Occasionally when I switch to another application and then switch back to IntelliJ I can't type anything, and the cursor doesn't appear on text when I click on things. Does anyone know what causes this? After 1-2 minutes it goes back to normal, but it's started happening more frequently and it's pretty frustrating to not be able to type and have no way to fix it.
This is the version of IntelliJ I'm using:
IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1.3
Build #IC-145.1617, built on June 3, 2016
JRE: 1.8.0_76-release-b198 x86_64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Turn off Vim Emulator from Tools in the IntelliJ, like this picture:
I am encountering this issue aswell, ...
MAC os Mojave 10.14.2, Inteliij Community 2018.3.5
Aside from restarting / clearing caches, I found that cmd + leftShift + F still opens the search window, and all my keystrokes appeared in the searchbox!
After the searchshortcut, I was able to close the searchbox and work again!
The answer here helped me https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206152119-Can-t-type-in-editor-window
Quoting the author of the answer:
I had the same problem. It goes away after I click the icon at top of
the scroll bar. it happens frequently on windows 7/10, and
occasionally on mac. my colleagues said they have experienced it too
Have the same issue occasionally, can't type in any Intellij windows. My temporary/quick fix, is to:
Close any terminal windows in intellij
Use cmd+shift+f to pull up the search window.
Seems to fix it, for a while.
Closed IDEA, all IDEA projects! Even though in other IDEA windows I could type.
Removed .idea folder in the project I could not edit.
Restarted IDEA.
Then I was able to type!
Maybe you entered Vim emulator as said. Maybe only by mistake :).
Control-V is a frequently used shortcut. And Control-Alt_V is the shortcut to enable Vim mode so you can see the problem...
How to know in five seconds: type a ":" (colon) and if the cursor jump to end of the screen, that is vim. If so enter q to quit and then Control-Alt-V (on windows) to go back to IDEA standard mode.
vi is a powerful text editor since ever. But only if you pretend and know how to use it... There is even a warning on the IDEA install saying like "do not install unless you are familiar with Vim" in yellow bold text, iirc.
[Follows historic data, that you may find boring off-topic or interesting]
Today's editors opens the code in edit mode right away so you can start typing over existing code. Vim by the other hand opens the code in, let us say, browsing mode: there is a set of navigation keys to browse the code. Everything you type is supposed to be a command. When you want to edit you enter INSERT mode and then you can type new text. Only then.
Just for more historic data: vi navigation mode is great for studying code you do not know, using IDEA, since it does not change the text unless you tell it to, and some vi commands are clever.
One example:
"/" (forward slash) is one search command, and "z" is a smart scroll command so that:
/setCellFactory will search for the next match of "setCellFactory" and put the cursor there
Then if you type "z" the code will be positioned so that line is the first on screen. And if you type "." the line will be at the middle. And if you type "-" that line will be at the last position at the screen. And you can use these commands again and again. And new slash will go for the next match, like F3
This "z" thing is a feature I miss in Visual Studio, IDEA, Eclipse, Word, WordPad: these commands to scroll text AROUND a pattern... /pattern, z, z., z-. The alternative is the mouse wheel...
I am used to vi since the 80's and is the editor I still use today on Linux terminals so when this happened to me on IDEA I was lucky to remember and suspect of that on the first time.
Sorry if these details are boring
Ensure you haven't unintentionally enabled vim emulation. Go to IntelliJ Idea -> Preferences and select Plugins. Scroll down and look for the vim emulation plugin and if it's checked, then either uncheck it or uninstall it completely.
Ran into same issue with intelliJ 2017.1.2, but no VIM Plugin. However, I had just created an empty project with some .groovy files. I could edit the files in the groovy project, but not java projects.
Only way I could fix java projects, was blow-away workspace.xml files in each, then I could edit again. However, had to re-create tomcat configs, breakpoints, other IDE settings. etc.
I had a problem with entering characters when working with .story files. When I tried to type in any character, it appeared for a short while and immediately disappeared. The cause of the problem was jbehave plugin I was using. After uninstalling it and restarting IntelliJ everything was fine.
It seems to be because another window has the cursor and is not giving it back.
Check any open floated windows, click on them & then click back to your intellij instance
alternatively, if you have multiple intellij instances open the cursor could be there...
Go to the most recently opened IntelliJ instance
Check if the cursor has become stuck in that project's terminal window, or another window
no? check all other open IntelliJ instances
For me it happened because of vim
Om Mac, I solved it by navigating to File → Reload All from Disk.
Keyboard shortcut: ⌥ ⌘ Y
IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1.4
Try disabling plugins one at a time. It was the "BashSupport Pro" plugin that caused it for me. Disabled it and I could type again right away.
I read other comments saying some other plugins caused the issue as well.
I have quite a few libraries attached to my project and in Eclipse it shows me all my classes that are available to me when I press Ctrl+space.
But with IntelliJ IDEA so many are missing and even when I press Ctrl+space twice it still does not show up.
How ever it does come up when I use goto class(Ctrl + N) it fines it ill add 2 print screens as an example:
Opened up a bug on the jetbrains tracker and Peter Gromov got back to me with "its a bug to do with starting a class with a small letter." The said bug is documented here
Peter suggested that I use the new version of Intellij Idea 13 in which this issue was fixed.
Update
It works on Intellij Idea 13 (as suggested by Peter), so indeed it was an issue with the first character being a lower case character.
By default IntelliJ IDEA come with a "first letter" case sensitive. Here's the place to change that value to "None".