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0 pointsthu21115y ago0 comments

There's a problems view! It's a bit hidden though. Go Help -> Find Action, type "Problems" and hit enter. You can also get to it by clicking the little red or yellow square in the top right of the editor.

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dcminter5y ago

Thanks, but it's not really the same thing (unless there's another feature somewhere).

Take a look at this comparison: https://paperstack.com/img/ides/eclipse_vs_idea_problems.png

In IntelliJ I can invoke this gizmo for the file I'm in, but it reports the problems for that file. It doesn't tell me where else the problems are. If I do a build I typically get a handful of compilation errors until the build gives up.

In Eclipse, by default, I get the Problems view. It lists all the compilation issues it knows about in the entire project(s).

Because Eclipse does incremental compilation I get to know about issues in a totally different file immediately. I also see stuff like config file errors in the same panel. It's really neat.

IntelliJ may have this feature somewhere, but this doesn't seem to be it.

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