Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Source code representation Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 17:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3863893.986.1320280201397.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prfp13> References: <29cla79dh934epr5n27cghvupjk77mpuqr@4ax.com> <4eaab738$0$5147$e4fe514c@dreader17.news.xs4all.nl> <2011110101533290344-angrybaldguy@gmailcom> <3jp1b7drmmhg7i9eo75f6sai9qottf11ua@4ax.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.java.programmer@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 2620:0:1000:fd2b:224:d7ff:fe69:5838 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1320280308 23796 127.0.0.1 (3 Nov 2011 00:31:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:31:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2620:0:1000:fd2b:224:d7ff:fe69:5838; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9411 On Wednesday, November 2, 2011 3:27:56 PM UTC-7, Daniel Pitts wrote: > On 11/2/11 1:58 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > I prefer to develop Java with a command line, text editor and ant. I've > > used IntelliJ and generally liked it once I'd gotten used to that busy > > screen, except for one thing: apart from specific refactoring facilities > > its text editor seemed to be missing all but the most basic editing > > functions - there were times I'd have killed for a general-purpose regex- > > based search-and-replace facility. > > What version of IntelliJ did you use? I'm using 10 now, and it has had > regex search/replace for a long time. It also has structural search and > replace, which is a bit more powerful but more complicated to set up. NetBeans and Eclipse also have full-featured regex search(-and-replace), and have had for a long time. > On top of all that, the editor has really good auto completion support. > It's gotten so smart about it that you don't even need to use hot-keys > for auto completion; just use the punctuation you would use normally, > such as parenthesis or dot. Sure, it will rarely get in the way and do > the wrong thing, but by and large it greatly improves my productivity. -- Lew