@ superfoo: If you are in the Electrical Installation Business (for love and passion, not for you must to work even you don’t like your job) you’ll buy the best tool that you can. Why: ’cause you know if you use the best tool (Ex: a Fluke Multimeter or a Black and Decker electric Screwdriver) you’re able to do most in less time and with more joy. Thats why I use IDEA even if Eclipse is free
@ Brian Slesinsky: We make (a friend and me) a plugin for IntelliJ and isn’t so difficult, but the lack of docs and tutorials could be a stopper for most of the people.
But if you really want to write a IDEA plugin, you can read some open source plugin code and see how work and then write your own plugin.
Because Eclipse is free.
If you actually try to use IntelliJ’s plugin API, you’ll find out another reason.
@ superfoo: If you are in the Electrical Installation Business (for love and passion, not for you must to work even you don’t like your job) you’ll buy the best tool that you can. Why: ’cause you know if you use the best tool (Ex: a Fluke Multimeter or a Black and Decker electric Screwdriver) you’re able to do most in less time and with more joy. Thats why I use IDEA even if Eclipse is free
@ Brian Slesinsky: We make (a friend and me) a plugin for IntelliJ and isn’t so difficult, but the lack of docs and tutorials could be a stopper for most of the people.
But if you really want to write a IDEA plugin, you can read some open source plugin code and see how work and then write your own plugin.
BTW # 1: You can checkout the source code of my plugin at: http://code.google.com/p/intellistripes/
BTW # 2: A lot people ask me for plans to port my plugin to Eclipse :), currently We don’t have plans to do that.