IntelliJ Notes

Tips for IntelliJ users:

• Visit File | Settings | Editor | Code Style and set Visual guides to 90. This will draw a line at the 90th column so you can see when your lines are getting too long.

• To get rid of hard tabs in source files:
  Visit File | Settings | Editor | Code Style | Java, select the Tabs and Indents item at the top, and clear Use tab character.
  • If you have
  • Open your code in NotePad to check if your files contain tabs.
  • If you accidentally add some tab characters, see below for a fix.
  • You might consider moving to a more modern indentation style and setting Tab size to 2, Indent to 2, and Continuation indent to 4.

• If you change the formatting, right click on the src folder and select Reformat Code.

• For a larger font, select File | Settings | Editor | Font and set Size appropriately.