r/IntelliJIDEA

Learn and customize Intellij for java

Hi,

C++ developer using vscode here. I am starting learning java and find it is inconvenient to stick with vscode compared with Intellij for java(Or maybe I didn't use vscode for java in a right way).

Are there any recommendation for quickly pick up Intellij tricks? I have already imported vscode shortcuts to Intellij but still having tough time to get used with the different UI settings... Is there any useful plugins or other stuff that I need to know at the same time?

Thank you in advance!

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u/Tao_KTH — 7 days ago

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2026.2.1 Freezing non stop ugly issue

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Hi folks, updated Idea to 2026.2.1 and actually face ugly issues. It keep freezing.
Big project, never had issues before but since update it freezing during file edit, working w/ GIT etc.

I gave 4G to IDE, 8 to gradle (from 32). All is on nvme. 6 cores / debian

It freeze for 30sec or more.

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u/nikitasius — 9 days ago

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Custom Kotlin DSL - Colour Encoding in Intellij

Very trivial problem but hoping someone who knows intellij better than me can explain why Intellij colours 1 of my Customer Kotlin DSLs purple but another one as Orange.

Same Codebase, Same Pattern/Logic using the the 'DSLMarker' Annotation (Extended) with DSL Builders. I can't see why Intellij would treat these differently. Thanks.

This is coloured purple

This is coloured Orange

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u/Additional_Skill_317 — 8 days ago

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Thank you for the lsp!

Thank you JB for the lsp, amazing to be able to have some good java experience in neovim. Have been testing it by making a neovim setup with claude and its amazing.

in case you want to try it until something better comes out, a quickly made implementation: https://github.com/gipo355/nvim-intellij-lsp

the debugger works too!

Hope some good feedback will be provide to you!:

from me:

allow case insensitive completions (string, not String)
improve the postfix/command completions
add more code actions
there is a lock per project, need to somehow make a daemon of sort? i open many tabs with tmux on the same project sometimes, it allows only one

u/Kirorus1 — 13 days ago

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Markdown Pro Plugin released

Hi all,

Happy to announce that we've released Markdown Pro, a new plugin for the Jetbrains family of products. How does Markdown Pro compare to the bundled Markdown plugin? Glad you asked!

A few new features:

Markdown Pro adds explicit `.mdx` support:

`.mdx` files open with Markdown editing behavior instead of as plain text.
JSX component names, attributes, values, and expressions receive editor highlighting.
Multiline components can be folded, including components whose content contains literal tags in code spans.
Formatting actions, task-list actions, inspections, tables, and live templates work in MDX-aware contexts.
Front matter, fenced code, and JSX expressions are excluded from authoring features when applying them would be incorrect.

Also:

Markdown Pro adds project-level rendering choices for:

GitHub Flavored Markdown.
Markdown Extra.
CommonMark.
Standard Markdown based on John Gruber's original syntax.

Also, the plugin provides document conversions through Morph, enhanced table editing, more inspections, Mermaid, GeoJSON, Interactive Ascii STL models, and much more!

You can find the plugin here: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/33400-markdown-pro, and while it's a commercial plugin, we currently have a 50% off promo, so you'd basically pay $1.50 for this plugin.

If you have any feedback, would be happy to hear!!

Cheers,

Erik

u/bodiam — 12 days ago

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Kotlin - autocomplete on 2026.02

I posted a few weeks back about this (pretty big) regression issue and how i needed to downgrade version but now attempting again the new release again as there was a patch version. basically, seeing the same intermittent issue where the kotlin lookup fails completely and a simple restart (no cache invalidation) of the IDE did not fix the issue nor does a full cache invalidation i have found - the option is gone.

Note that this feature was working on 2026.02 up until about 1 hour ago and i am now unable to get the feature working again

the issue

when you explicitly write the name of the variable it then works (i've scrolled down the menu popup).

note the 'AI' autocomplete finds the variable

attempting to find the param of this method also fails but you see the ai autocomplete finds it.

Another project but same issue - note its not finding the variable

can't find testPublisher

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u/Additional_Skill_317 — 12 days ago