Sunday, May 06, 2007

IntelliJ Sucks! AKA keybinding hell.

Ok, out of morbid curiosity we decided to download and install IntelliJ trial for doing our development during this iteration. Getting our Eclipse project imported and Tomcat installed was pretty painless so we thought what the heck, let's try it. It didn't last long. It really boiled down to our addiction to the keyboard, no mouse for us. Even with the Eclipse keybindings set, it didn't cover all of the shortcuts we use regularly. The "Quick Fix" keystroke (Ctl+1) was not available for instance. So we could probably have taken the time to get them completely set up "Eclipse Style", but how many IntelliJ shops are using Eclipse bindings? I guess my thoughts turn more and more towards thinking that the IDE doesn't really matter that much, it's all in what you're used to.

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