You can only have one project in IntelliJ at a time.

If you have IntelliJ open, with some task running like compiling or test case running and switch to another window, the IntelliJ IDE keeps getting the focus back to itself. This particular feature is so very irritating. I know when to get back to the editor instead of the editor changing the focus to itself each time.

There is no equivalent of eclispe’s Heirarchy view in IntelliJ.

There is no way to highlight a particular word in the editor. This is particularly useful when you want to see where all a method/variable is being used in a method without having to do a ctrl + F

Is there some hot key available to switch between the different tabs ?

The default color for HTML tags in javadocs is nasty. If you want to change them, only a standard set of 7-8 colors are present. Couldn’t it be better to have the HTML tags italicised like in Eclipse.

There might be workaround or solutions to the points that I mentioned above, and I might be ignorant of those, but overall I personally feel, Intellij is not something worth buying with your money when you can get a better product like eclipse for free !!

I always complained that reordering was easier in IDEA. The code folding way is good, but this:
http://plugins.intellij.net/plugins/view/?id=Rearranger
is better

The ANT tab is an interesting one though, it has no number, but try CTRL-SHIFT-A.

Might be coming close to your eclipse wish list .

The code-folding thing might work; I’ll give it a go.

Window-sizing is more that I don’t want the windows resizing all the time: getting them to be the same size is a nuisance. Restoring them may help, and thatnks for that.

Hmmm… package view; that’s probably what I need.

Thanks for the tips.

Structure editing –
The code folding support might help –
ctrl shift minus to collapse the current file, then ctrl-x ctrl-v to cut and paste stuff round.

ctrl-shift- plus to reexpand the file

ant support — would using a different ant help? — right click on the build file in the ant-build section, and you can switch the ant version, and play with the various settings.

window sizing –

shift-f12 and ctrl-shift-f12 are your friends

shift-f12 restores the defaul layout which you can save using the window menu.

Creating a new class — tis true you do need to be close to the right spot.
2 suggestions
1) if you create it in the packages view (not the project view) you get the option to choose which directory to put it in if you have two parrallel package structures stored in different directories.
2) f6 just after creating the file will give you a pretty dialogue for moving it. then alt-r will let you choose a different source folder if necessary.

To speed up compiling — you can always drop in Jikes.

Another nice feature that might help get some of the eclipse ways of doing things in is the macros. They can have hot-keys assigned to them. I have had a macro to write a “It’s time for lunch” failing test in a single keystroke.

I’ve also since had the drop down for the “most recently run configurations”, so that’s that gripe taken care of too.

Okay, that’s two down. 10 to go. Keep the tips coming.

shift-f10?