Kick Visual Studio in the face

General Discussions
#1

One thing VS fanboys usually bring up is Intellisense as some kind of “advantage”. It is strange, because since the 90s completion is a kind of a standard feature for any shitty editor.

Well, it happens that Eclipse comes with a delay enabled, so the completion takes much longer than just instantaneous. WHY!? Just so Java looks slow and not as good as the competition!?

In order to make Eclipse to behave like VS, just change Auto activation delay (ms) to 0 and Auto activation triggers for Java to .abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ in Java / Editor / Content Assist.

Sometimes I think there are too many Linux freaks in Java. They seem to make things always so unnecessarily complicated, there’s always an extra configuration somewhere, an extra file you have to copy, etc. Too much BS that should be default!

#2

The delay is so you can start typing a dot and something immediately afterward and it doesn’t pop up the menu and distract you.

Christ, you are always hysterical about something. Seek professional help.

#3

I wonder if we took a poll of developers, how many would prefer instantaneous code completion popups vs. a small delay. I’m betting it’s along the lines of whatever their most-used IDE does.

I think the logic behind the delay is “if I pause for a second, I probably need help remembering what method/field/whatever I want to type. If I don’t pause, I’m probably hammering out code by myself just fine, and popups would just obscure my view of other code in the editor.”

#4

I’ve never really been bothered by the delay in Eclipse. On the other hand, hovering my mouse over a class in order to import it is annoying.

I should probably look up a way to fix that…

#5

You found the Java Editor preferences dialog… congratulations.

#6

I have to buy Visual Studio to add extensions for it? Doesn’t Microsoft know that I am a poor developer?

Cheers :slight_smile:

#7

They don’t even know or care you exist. They want to sell licenses by the trunk load.

Myself: I much appreciate the delays that have been built into Eclipse and even complained once about one of them needing to be slightly longer :slight_smile:

#8

You can always take a quick look at your hotkeys. I tap CTRL+SPACE for instant intellisense, CTRL+1 for that other useful thing. ALT+Arrow keys to move around lines of code, CTRL+ALT+(up,down)to copy lines of code. CTRL+ALT+ENTER for auto indentation (customizable), CTRL+ALT+(left,right) to move between recent tabs/methods/classes. That’s basically it I think. Eclipse is highly customizable. It would be annoying if intellisense would popup right at the start of every single word :o

#9

Those “Linux freaks” are the reason that we don’t program Java in Visual Studio, or in Eclipse with a $500 license.

#10

Huh, I completely read over that. How can you take anyone seriously that just blurts out woefully inappropriate stuff like that?

#11

The best way to reduce the impact of trolls on a forum is to deprive them of the reactions they crave and answer in an intelligent manner which a) potentially can give some actual useful insight for others b) make them look doubly as bad if they respond in a non-intelligent manner and c) bore them so they stop :stuck_out_tongue:

#12

Really? These types of threads still exists? :smiley:

Look, I get that there are still people with negative opinions about Microsoft and their IDE’s. But come on…
It’s 2012. Is there still war between all OS?

#13

That’s delay? I always thought it’s my CPU’s lag ;D

#14

I turn it off. If I want completion I will press ctrl space.

#15

Yeah, I do that too. Mind often telling fingers what to do before hard disk catches up, leading to annoyance.

Cas :slight_smile:

#16

how do you turn it off ? I mean it could be better, because you can always press CTRL + 1, IF/WHEN you need it

I started with VS 6 and c++ yeeears ago and “liked it” (not knowing anything other)

With Java, I started with JOE, then JCreator, then NetBeans and for a long time now Eclipse.

Recently I had to write some C++ code again and installed Visual Studio 2010 or whatever. Its like > 9000 GB, takes ages to start up, takes ages to compile.
Afaik Eclipse can also do C++, so if I ever have another big C++ thing, I’m going to try to use Eclipse as well.

#17

Comparing compile times doesn’t really make sense for completely AOT (c/c++/etc) vs dynamically compiled (java, etc). Visual Studio is quite good for C/C++…everything else I wouldn’t know (nor care).

#18

Ctrl+Shift+O (O as in Open) auto-(un)imports everything.

If you use static importing with LWJGL, set the “number of static imports to expand” to 99 in the Java Editor preferences.

You’re welcome. :slight_smile:

#19

Except that it doesn’t obscure anything. And if you are typing code then you aren’t reading some other part of the page. What do Java developers read code a couple of lines below while typing something new?

#20

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