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prolog support A full support for the language prolog would be really nice. The interpreter for debugging should be tuprolog.
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Web UI refactoring Ability to select part of JSF page and extract it as JSF component would be great. You can add here ability to select part of JSP page with some java variables used and extract it as .tag file with at... >>
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generate equals / hashcode The built-in implementation of equals and hashCode methods is not configurable. The generated equals method produces code that violates Liskov substitution principal (by not using instanceof to check... >>
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Portlet technology development, coding and integration New kind of project, portlet development for portal products like Liferay or JBoss Portal
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shell script support It would be nice to support sh, bash, and csh scripts in the editor.It would be even nicer if you could easily execute them, possibly by invoking an shell (e.g. cygwin bash on windows, or a remote ssh... >>
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HAML support in Ruby plugin Currently the ruby plugin supports erb, but many of us are using HAML these days...
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Performace Time Tracking I wish that I could simply add another level of debugging and performance profiling: It would be nice if I could add checkpoints in the code (in a similar way to breakpoints) that will measure the tim... >>
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Colour Picker takes code like new Color ( 0x#8b4513 ) 1. adds comment /* chocolate4 */ x11 colour or extended set of names. 2. displays a swatch on line to show what colour looks like as part of listing. 3. let... >>
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Save search results It would be really useful to be able to save search results - including fold/unfold and exclude/include state - between project sessions, so that you can close down IntelliJ and continue working throu... >>
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WYSIWYG for WSDL Would like to have a WSDL builder instead of going into the code. Much like the Dependencies tab on a Spring file, only be able to manipulate it from there. I\'ve seen a couple of nice ones elsewher... >>
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Adapter to allow ANTLR 3 lexers and parsers in language plugins While you can use ANTLR parsers in language plugins, it isn\'t trivial to do, and I haven\'t got it to work completely. Many languages use ANTLR grammars, and first class support in language plugins w... >>
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FindBugs plugins It would be great to have FindBugs (http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/) integration in IDEA. (Perhaps \"bugs\" number showing next to class/package like in code coverage?)
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jquery plugin It would be nice if we have a jquery plugin that check dependences of jquery.js pack and do not gives comments like \"Unresolved function $\"
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GUI Builder for GWT.
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Classpath analyzer when global libraries are used in a project sometimes they include different and potentially conflicting versions of the same jar and order of use of those jars different depending on the way applicat... >>
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JSF support for IceSoft's IceFaces Native JSF support in IntelliJ 6 does not include IceFaces (an OpenSource JSF implementation).
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Team Foundation Server (TFS) Plugin CVS integration with Microsoft Team Foundation Server
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iBATIS / Abator built in support I\'d like a built-in plugin that integrates both iBATIS-related editing and Abator xml,pojo generation based of DB tables.
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Support for JUnit Factory JUnit Factory (www.junitfactory.com) is a free web-based JUnit test generation service. Right now it only has an Eclipse client. We\'d love to see it support IntelliJ.
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Passivate Modules \"unload\" a module without it disappearing from the module/project structure. Sometimes my project gets too big and I need to manage multiple projects which gets awkward. I would want to \"rel... >>
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Synchronize Project tool window content with open document Being able to right click on an open document and highlight the file name in project tool window
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WebWork support WebWork support integration
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Schmant A plugin to integrate the build tool Schmant (www.schmant.org) in IntelliJ. It also should support (code completion, color coding etc etc) writing schmant build scripts (at least in javascript...)
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Real-time collaborative editing like subethaedit on OS X I’d love to be able to co-edit a class or file in real-time. Imagine being able to flesh out a method while your colleague is already working on the java docs, tidying up behind you or working o... >>
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Auto code completion to slow for typing speed Since moste of the users of intelliJ are coders, we are all fast typers. But the intellij code completion has some problems with fast typers. The problem is that when you put the dot after an objec... >>
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UML-Tool It would be nice to have an UML-Tool in IntelliJ
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C# code editing Provides ability to use IDEA for developing C# code - recognises C# code and lets you navigate around it. Syntax checking. Support for nant files
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Sounds Request sounds for certain events that occur in the IDE. Stuff like compilation complete, compilation complete with error, compilation complete with warnings, exception occurred, etc. JBuilder has a... >>
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Smarter class/package completion preferences Rubbish name for a problem I have with IntelliJ several times a day. As a Swing developer IDEA will pretty much always import javax.swing.*; java.awt.*; pretty quickly. However if I then type List<... >>
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Telnet and SSH console toolwindow - putty like would be nice to have something like putty integrated within idea.
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Erlang language support Interest in this cute functional language from the 80s is quickly growing. A basic custom language implementation in IDEA would be nice. One good attribute is that the language can be considered st... >>
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Support for jambi It would be nice if the signal/slot mechanism of Jambi (Trolltech\'s new open source product on Qt java bindings) could be supported in the IntelliJ editor.
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PHP It would be great if IDEA supports full fledged support for PHP projects
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XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0 support XPathView / XsltSupport is a pleasure to use. However, recently we\'ve started to use the new Saxon release to benefit from XSTL 2.0 / XPath 2.0. Xpath 2.0 / Xslt 2.0 is a rare example of a W3C ... >>
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snippets support like Textmate Snippet is one of the TextMate\'s feature. When press a Tab key after a certain abbr word , e.g. \'mct\', then the full code - \'create table ,<{}> end\' will be added to the editing file. It is fast ... >>
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equals and hashCode check Equals and hashCode often never get updated when a class grows. So when a new field is added the equals and hashCode become invalid. Perhaps this is intended, perhaps not! Why not add a check to see ... >>
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Rational ClearQuest repository access from inside Idea The plugin should enable working with ClearQuest from inside Idea. All the functionalities should be available in Idea. Also while check in any fix in VCS it should close the issue in ClearQuest autom... >>
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