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Does anyone have any tips or resources for getting more out of the Jetbrains IDEs? I've been using them for years but I still feel like there's so much I'm not taking advantage of.

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Jetbrains has a lot of videos on youtube. eg this Intellij one has a bunch of stuff I never knew existed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AMcN-wkspU

Start with going through the settings [1]. You will learn some new things along the way.

There's also a great WebStorm Guide [2], with many tips applicable to other languages as well.

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/intellij-idea-settings/

[2] https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/guide/

Thanks, I'm wondering if there are more tutorials about writing plugins. There are a few shortcuts that do not exist and I'd love to implement with a plugin.

In 2014, I have written a just for fun plugin in about 2 hours (check out my write-up [1]). I've followed the "How to make an IntelliJ IDEA plugin in less than 30 minutes" [2] guide back then. Unfortunately, this guide seems to be outdated, but now there's an official guide [3].

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/what-the-commit-plugin-for-intelli...

[2] https://www.cnblogs.com/meetrice/p/5184827.html

[3] https://jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/basics/getting_start...

Hi thanks a lot for the links! I wonder if it's as extensible as say Vim/Emacs.

My personal favorite is "find usages". You can destroy dead code which makes life a bit better in a large codebase. The pretty basic auto refactor is also nice

It seems like there are just a lot of those small things you get used to that are really nice

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