Abhishek Sah

Problem: How to have more/less elements in the window title bar? Default tool window bar Solution: To have more elements: Right-click on the empty space and select "Main menu | Merge with Main Too...

Problem When Cmd+Shift+A the hotkey is invoked, it opens a man page search command instead of the Find Action dialog: Cause macOS 10.14.4+ adds the new default shortcut for the Search man Page Ind...

Problem IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate reports a warning for a key in application.properties or application.yml that belongs to a third-party Spring Boot starter: Cannot resolve configuration property 'jav...

Problem In IntelliJ IDEA on Windows, a project is opened from the WSL file system (\\wsl.localhost\<distribution>\... or \\wsl$\<distribution>\...). A local JBoss/WildFly Server run configuration p...

Question What do the icons in the Project tool window mean? Answer Identify an icon in this order. Hover the item. The tooltip names the item type. Read the icon as two parts. The base shape gives...

Problem After an update to IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2026.2.1 or later, .jsp, .jspx, .tag and .tagf files open as plain text. Syntax highlighting is missing and code completion is unavailable. Java co...

Observation The Java inspection 'StringBuilder' can be replaced with 'String' (ID StringBufferReplaceableByString) highlights code that uses a local StringBuilder, StringBuffer, or StringJoiner and...

Question How to inspect the value returned by a getter (or any other method) during a Java debugging session in IntelliJ IDEA, without stepping into the method or evaluating each call by hand. Answ...

HotSwap reloads classes that were changed during a debugging session into the running JVM, with no restart and no loss of in-memory state. IntelliJ IDEA's debugger uses the standard JVM Class Redef...

Problem When using the Scala plugin in IntelliJ IDEA with the compiler-based error highlighting, users experience cascading false positives in unrelated files whenever there are real compilation er...