Well I started going back to school online, and that means ... you guessed it, Java classes! Instructors recommended jGRASP, but I tried it briefly and did not

Well I started going back to school online, and that means ... you guessed it, Java classes! Instructors recommended jGRASP, but I tried it briefly and did not like it too much. So, I have been playing with IntelliJ Community Edition in parallel and I prefer it. Anecdotally, I have not had the same performance issues, but I do use it on 8GB RAM + SSD laptop. So, I might be lucky by privilege here. In the community edition, at least, there is Power Save mode. I think this halts project file indexing and other "cool" features. Maybe it would help? I also was surprised my computer was not hosed when playing with the Clojure REPL plugin, but again my laptop could be very beefy. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11725605/what-is-power-save-mode-in-intellij-idea-and-other-jetbrains-ides http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11725605/what-is-power-sa... That being said, I need to do this school work on a work laptop because I got a Kindle textbook and I have not had time to convert it into PDF/ePub for use on my Linux laptop. I would love to use eclim and emacs, but that seems like a headache waiting to happen on Winboxen. Does anyone do Java/Scala dev on a Windows machine without one of the very unminimalist IDE's? I would much prefer console based, but Cygwin emacs is flimsy as it is. http://eclim.org/install.html http://eclim.org/install.html http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsEclim http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsEclim