Re: [jdt-dev] Ctrl-1 driven development

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From:      
 Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "'Discussions
about the IDE'" <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, jdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:      
 14.10.2015 18:21
Subject:    
   [jdt-dev] Ctrl-1
driven development
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Hi all,

I've spent some times asking former Eclipse RCP developers now converted
to the 300$/year IDE on what they thing are the best things that are missing
in Eclipse IDE.

What they tell first is the quality of the "quick-fixes" in IntelliJ.
But when you get into details, what makes the difference isn't really that
IJ has editing/refactoring operations that Eclipse IDE doesn't have, but
more that IJ shows the useful ones (and only the useful ones) on their
Alt+Enter.
In Eclipse, a lot of operations are available under Source and Refactor
context menu, but it's a lot of menus to browse, it takes a lot of time,
mostly requires to use mouse, requires to read a lot of entries that are
contextual to the editor but not to the active selection... It's complicated.
Eclipse has the very good Ctrl+1 menu, which is basically meant to host
such small operations that are in the context of the selection in an editor.
Eclipse IDE (precisely JDT UI) already shows a few relevant ones, but some
other good ones are missing.

So an easy way to improve Eclipse IDE would be to add to the Ctrl+1 the
operations that users likes in this very narrow context. If you get such
an idea, please report it to JDT/UI and share it. I believe fixing that
isn't a too difficult task, with no risk at all, and that it would provide
much user satisfaction. It could even be a great topic for a hackathon.
I plan to make a more direct comparison of these quick-fixes one day (cannot
be more precise, so don't wait for me if you're faster) and to come up
with a list of the ones that are missing in Eclipse IDE to make this Ctrl+1
so efficent that user won't have to dig in the context-menu and will always
get their favorite operation in a few keystrokes.

Cheers,
-- 
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss,
by Red Hat
My
blog - My
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