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IntelliJ IDEA along with the platform is the largest team at JetBrains and we're constantly working on bugs and features. If you can please point me to the issu

IntelliJ IDEA along with the platform is the largest team at JetBrains and we're constantly working on bugs and features. If you can please point me to the issues you're referring to in YouTrack, I can check the status.

thrower123 5y ago
There's been a long-standing issue in Rider and also Webstorm where you try to search globally with Ctrl-Shift-F, and the search UI comes up with the searchbar unfocused and pre-filled with something random. You type what you avtually want to search for, and it either goes nowhere, or tacks onto the end of whatever garbage was pre-populated in the search bar.
- prigara 5y ago
  This sounds like this one: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-201301 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-201301 It's a third-party issue that we, unfortunately, can't properly address on our side but there's a workaround available.
  - thrower123 5y ago
    Nah, it's not that - this is on Windows. If some text is highlighted, the Ctrl-Shift-F dialog will populate with that text, and it will be focused and selected. If nothing is highlighted in the editor, then it uses some random bit of text from the search history buffer, and does not focus the input.
albertzeyer 5y ago
Sorry for hijacking this question but I thought this might be a chance to push a bit the attention to some of the bugs I reported, as it would be nice to have them fixed. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues?q=by:%20albertzeyer%20 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues?q=by:%20albertzeyer%20 I don't want to sound too negative here though. In general, I'm very happy with IntelliJ, and I think it's currently the best available IDE for many languages (I care mostly about Python and PyCharm currently).
- hhariri 5y ago
  Thanks for the support Albert, and for the bug reports. I'll follow-up with the team.
nikitaga 5y ago
OTOH, just two of the bugs that annoyed me today: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-256708 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-256708 - Regression: Markdown preview vertical sync does not work anymore - Makes editing long documentation files a pain, I have to use an external markdown editor now - First reported 12 months ago https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-282427 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-282427 - Regression: Git actions don't work anymore when looking at the file diff window - Breaks my reviewing workflow, I have to use an older version of IntelliJ (which of course has its own problems) - First reported 3 months ago Missing / incomplete features is one thing (hello Scala 3 support), but leaving regressions unfixed for so long is breaking the fundamental trust that users have in your product – the ability to rely on the basic functionality that already exists.
- hhariri 5y ago
  Thanks. Will check.
jansan 5y ago
Not OP and quite satisfied with your products, but I want to take this opportunity to point at this issue for which I really would like to see some progress: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-48756 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-48756
sam_lowry_ 5y ago
This bug is quite telling: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-276949 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-276949 It is marked as fixed but it is not yet released. If you look inside, you will see that HTTP Proxy authentication has been broken for almost a year. Many corporate users are behind such proxies, and they suffer. This kind of bugs should be utmost priority, because they directly impact the cashflow.
- topazas 5y ago
  same to me - sad story every day..
- sam_lowry_ 5y ago
  Ouups... it's been reopened after the 2021.3 release.
sam_lowry_ 5y ago
Another issue that hits IntelliJ IDEA corporate customers is WSL2 support. While VS Code has great WSL2 support, IntelliJ IDEA can not even show proper error messages when opening Maven projects inside WSL2. See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-267333 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-267333
- pletnes 5y ago
  Seconded, as a pycharm user. It doesn’t support virtualenvs inside WSL2. I mean… no virtualenvs? In a paid python IDE?
hv42 5y ago
People on this issue[1] have been asking themselves the same questions. New very specific features are added with every new releases. However, the Git/shelf experience is lacking the ability to commit specific lines. [1] See this highly voted issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-186988 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-186988 (opened since more than 3 years already)
- theplumber 5y ago
  That looks like a feature request, not a bug. Am I wrong?
gjvc 5y ago
More effective would be to send the board and the CEO links to this and the other thread to show how long-gone the days of "develop with pleasure!" really are.
gommm 5y ago
I think that it would be good to dedicate a few months with no new feature and just focus on fixing all the regression bugs, there's a lot of bugs that are reported for many months to a year seemingly without activity. I used to like Intellij but got fed up and just stopped using it. Dealing with regression bugs isn't worth it. An IDE should be extremely stable, releasing new features is great but it shouldn't be to the detriment of existing features.
- stefs 5y ago
  https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s... 5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
  - bathtub365 5y ago
    > A score of 12 is perfect, 11 is tolerable, but 10 or lower and you’ve got serious problems. The truth is that most software organizations are running with a score of 2 or 3, and they need serious help, because companies like Microsoft run at 12 full-time. Over the weekend I spent a good chunk of a day fighting with a copy of Windows 11 for ARM preview that has a major bug wherein the Start Menu just straight-up doesn’t work. I’m not sure Microsoft is running at 12 full-time 21 years on from when this article was posted.
    - gommm 5y ago
      I don't think that Microsoft ever ran at 12 full-time given my experience with windows 9x... But then Joel is biased when it comes to Microsoft.
      - joe_guy 5y ago
        It was also 20 years ago when Microsoft didn't constantly release half finished versions of Windows.
  - selcuka 5y ago
crustycoder 5y ago
I shouldn't have to point out just how broken that is as a way of supporting paying customers. Like the OP I've simply stopped reporting bugs, because they don't get looked at for literally years, let alone fixed. The product is OK-ish, the support is abysmal.
- atraac 5y ago
  It’s funny because I use Rider for work and I did have few issues that I reported but my experience is totally different. I got instant help in every case, usually developer jumping into the thread and people actually fixing bugs.
saghm 5y ago
This is pretty unrelated, but it's bugged me for years and this is the first chance I've had to ask someone who works at Jetbrains, so I'm going to ask anyway: what exactly is going on with the name "IntelliJ IDEA" versus the other IDEs (Pycharm, RubyMine, etc.)? When I first saw it, I assumed that either "IDEA" was a brand of IDEs of which IntelliJ was one, or the reverse, but I was surprised when I saw that the other IDEs from Jetbrains don't use either word for their names. Is there any other IDEA other than IntelliJ? Is anything else "IntelliJ" besides "IDEA"? The best explanation I can come up with is that there was originally an idea (pun intended) to reuse branding across them, but it was abandoned by the time the other IDEs came out, but I have no idea if this even fits the timeline of their releases, let alone if it's accurate.

thrower123 5y ago

There's been a long-standing issue in Rider and also Webstorm where you try to search globally with Ctrl-Shift-F, and the search UI comes up with the searchbar unfocused and pre-filled with something random. You type what you avtually want to search for, and it either goes nowhere, or tacks onto the end of whatever garbage was pre-populated in the search bar.

prigara 5y ago
This sounds like this one: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-201301 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-201301 It's a third-party issue that we, unfortunately, can't properly address on our side but there's a workaround available.
- thrower123 5y ago
  Nah, it's not that - this is on Windows. If some text is highlighted, the Ctrl-Shift-F dialog will populate with that text, and it will be focused and selected. If nothing is highlighted in the editor, then it uses some random bit of text from the search history buffer, and does not focus the input.

albertzeyer 5y ago

Sorry for hijacking this question but I thought this might be a chance to push a bit the attention to some of the bugs I reported, as it would be nice to have them fixed. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues?q=by:%20albertzeyer%20 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues?q=by:%20albertzeyer%20 I don't want to sound too negative here though. In general, I'm very happy with IntelliJ, and I think it's currently the best available IDE for many languages (I care mostly about Python and PyCharm currently).

hhariri 5y ago
Thanks for the support Albert, and for the bug reports. I'll follow-up with the team.

nikitaga 5y ago

OTOH, just two of the bugs that annoyed me today: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-256708 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-256708 - Regression: Markdown preview vertical sync does not work anymore - Makes editing long documentation files a pain, I have to use an external markdown editor now - First reported 12 months ago https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-282427 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-282427 - Regression: Git actions don't work anymore when looking at the file diff window - Breaks my reviewing workflow, I have to use an older version of IntelliJ (which of course has its own problems) - First reported 3 months ago Missing / incomplete features is one thing (hello Scala 3 support), but leaving regressions unfixed for so long is breaking the fundamental trust that users have in your product – the ability to rely on the basic functionality that already exists.

hhariri 5y ago
Thanks. Will check.

jansan 5y ago

Not OP and quite satisfied with your products, but I want to take this opportunity to point at this issue for which I really would like to see some progress: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-48756 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-48756

sam_lowry_ 5y ago

This bug is quite telling: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-276949 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-276949 It is marked as fixed but it is not yet released. If you look inside, you will see that HTTP Proxy authentication has been broken for almost a year. Many corporate users are behind such proxies, and they suffer. This kind of bugs should be utmost priority, because they directly impact the cashflow.

topazas 5y ago
same to me - sad story every day..
sam_lowry_ 5y ago
Ouups... it's been reopened after the 2021.3 release.

sam_lowry_ 5y ago

Another issue that hits IntelliJ IDEA corporate customers is WSL2 support. While VS Code has great WSL2 support, IntelliJ IDEA can not even show proper error messages when opening Maven projects inside WSL2. See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-267333 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-267333

pletnes 5y ago
Seconded, as a pycharm user. It doesn’t support virtualenvs inside WSL2. I mean… no virtualenvs? In a paid python IDE?

hv42 5y ago

People on this issue[1] have been asking themselves the same questions. New very specific features are added with every new releases. However, the Git/shelf experience is lacking the ability to commit specific lines. [1] See this highly voted issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-186988 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-186988 (opened since more than 3 years already)

theplumber 5y ago
That looks like a feature request, not a bug. Am I wrong?

gjvc 5y ago

More effective would be to send the board and the CEO links to this and the other thread to show how long-gone the days of "develop with pleasure!" really are.

gommm 5y ago

I think that it would be good to dedicate a few months with no new feature and just focus on fixing all the regression bugs, there's a lot of bugs that are reported for many months to a year seemingly without activity. I used to like Intellij but got fed up and just stopped using it. Dealing with regression bugs isn't worth it. An IDE should be extremely stable, releasing new features is great but it shouldn't be to the detriment of existing features.

stefs 5y ago
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s... 5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- bathtub365 5y ago
  > A score of 12 is perfect, 11 is tolerable, but 10 or lower and you’ve got serious problems. The truth is that most software organizations are running with a score of 2 or 3, and they need serious help, because companies like Microsoft run at 12 full-time. Over the weekend I spent a good chunk of a day fighting with a copy of Windows 11 for ARM preview that has a major bug wherein the Start Menu just straight-up doesn’t work. I’m not sure Microsoft is running at 12 full-time 21 years on from when this article was posted.
  - gommm 5y ago
    I don't think that Microsoft ever ran at 12 full-time given my experience with windows 9x... But then Joel is biased when it comes to Microsoft.
    - joe_guy 5y ago
      It was also 20 years ago when Microsoft didn't constantly release half finished versions of Windows.
- selcuka 5y ago

crustycoder 5y ago

I shouldn't have to point out just how broken that is as a way of supporting paying customers. Like the OP I've simply stopped reporting bugs, because they don't get looked at for literally years, let alone fixed. The product is OK-ish, the support is abysmal.

atraac 5y ago
It’s funny because I use Rider for work and I did have few issues that I reported but my experience is totally different. I got instant help in every case, usually developer jumping into the thread and people actually fixing bugs.

saghm 5y ago

This is pretty unrelated, but it's bugged me for years and this is the first chance I've had to ask someone who works at Jetbrains, so I'm going to ask anyway: what exactly is going on with the name "IntelliJ IDEA" versus the other IDEs (Pycharm, RubyMine, etc.)? When I first saw it, I assumed that either "IDEA" was a brand of IDEs of which IntelliJ was one, or the reverse, but I was surprised when I saw that the other IDEs from Jetbrains don't use either word for their names. Is there any other IDEA other than IntelliJ? Is anything else "IntelliJ" besides "IDEA"? The best explanation I can come up with is that there was originally an idea (pun intended) to reuse branding across them, but it was abandoned by the time the other IDEs came out, but I have no idea if this even fits the timeline of their releases, let alone if it's accurate.