

" simply don't work in all cases or at all. Simple stuff like only showing me Exceptions that are possible to be thrown when I auto-complete "catch(." or show me only classes or subclasses that are valid when I auto-complete "BaseClass bc = new.

The idea here is to make the IDE do the grunt work, NOT the lazy developers! Eclipse with Mylyn also has context about what I am working on and always gives me choices with ordering based on what I've used before, so it takes far fewer clicks to get what I need than in IntelliJ.įinally, the autocomplete is VERY POORLY implemented in IntelliJ. Eclipse FIGURES OUT what I am trying to complete and does the right thing for me EVERY TIME.

Eclipse's "one hot-key to rule them all" approach is FAR, FAR superior to the bewildering ctrl-space, ctrl-alt-space, ctrl-shift-space, apple-j, etc, etc keys that IntelliJ forces me to memorize for each context.
