Things possible in Eclipse that aren’t possible in IntelliJ?
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Solution
My favourite small annoyance in IDEA (and favourite small feature in Eclipse) is the positioning of the character when typing an opening curly brace (e.g. "{") or a semicolon. You'll have to enable it in Eclipse (Window/Preferences/Java/Editor/Typing: "Automatically insert at correct position: Semicolon, Braces")
With this just type ahead ("|" is the caret position)
while(|
results (no magic yet) in
while(|)
now type true{, results in
while(true) {|
So simple, yet so powerful.
Also, in (e.g.)
System.out.println("Hello world")
with the caret anywhere in that line, typing a semicolon will automagically type it at the end of the line. Backspace corrects, just like the usual autocorrection in your favourite wordprocessor.
Priceless. I'm physically no longer able to type a semicolon at the correct position on first try :)
Problem
I have heard from people who swear by one or the other. Both are full-featured, excellent IDEs. But each has slightly different strengths. This is not meant to turn into a holy IDE war. Please downvote any flamebait answers. Thanks. This is the analog of this question.