Alexey A. Efimov wrote:

>I think NO. Becose it's not Office Editor like Start Office or MS
>Office. I think too what light editor is cool editor, but if IntelliJ
>come by wieght to Jbuilder (fat slower editor, with more features) I not
>longer use it. I use IntelliJ that it's faster Java IDE of all avaible
>IDE and it's eat to small memory. So, xemacs is overloaded editor by
>self features, no body not use all feature complitely, but xemacs size
>of distribute -is more what 22 MB, for language of C is too much, very
>much. And xemacs using not only for Java coding (list of supported
>languages over 30 items, and more). You can't compare this two editors.
>IntelliJ is only oriented Java editor? and it must be Java editor, and
>no more else.
>
>My appenion - IntelliJ not spell checker or spell compliter, than it's
>not need to add this feature. And more of realy-need-feature not added
>yet. Let's point to priority.
>
So because IDEA is only used for Java it should not help me when I'm 
writing comments?

When I write a documentation comment and I need to talk about an 
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException or an ActionRedundancyChecker, I don't 
want to have to write that word manually if IDEA can easily help me. 
 That's why it's there:  To help me write code more efficiently.  I use 
IDEA because of a million tiny features like that, features that make 
everything more streamlined and helps me keep my focus on what I'm doing 
rather than having to put my brain on hold while my fingers are busy 
typing long words or doing some other mundane task that is better left 
to the computer.

I agree that IDEA shouldn't be bloated, but this doesn't necessarily 
mean that useful features should be left out (even though I admit we can 
have different opinions on what is useful or not).  Especially not for a 
reason like distribution size (22 MB of hard disk space costs maybe 10 
cents or something, to be compared with $400 for a copy of IDEA).  I 
also don't see why including a feature not everyone would use would be a 
problem (except in case it prevents some other feature from being 
implemented, of course).

Spell checking is something completely different -- if you're concerned 
about your spelling you can run an external spell checker once in a 
while.  But the lack of word completion affects me constantly when I'm 
writing comments.



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