A webinar demonstrating the new features in IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2, including debugger improvements, version control updates, and font ligatures.
Welcome IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2, a second update of our beloved IDE planned for this year! As always the update brings new features and improvements across the built-in tools, UI, and support for languages and frameworks.
The following areas are covered in the webinar:
- Agenda
- JUnit 5
- Debugger Changes
* - Watches and Variables Merged
* - Multi-line expressions
- Questions
- Version Control
* - Log Window
* - Patches
* - Case only renames
- Inspections
* - Tool window redesign
* - New Inspection
- Editor
* - Breadcrumbs for Java
* - Ligatures
* - Regular Expression support
- UI
- Questions
- Database Tools
* - Code completion for database names
* - Scroll from source
* - smarter code completion
* - surround with function
* - code completion for table values
* - resize columns with keyboard shortcuts
* - PostgreSQL improvements
- Questions
- JavaScript
* - Convert to Arrow function
* - Postfix completion improvements
* - React improvements
* - Angular 2 improvements
* - Grunt, gulp and npm scripts as Before Launch tasks
* - HTML quote configuration
- Questions
*Author: Trisha Gee
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LazyOneon Stack Overflow • Recommends
On “WebStorm: Display ===, != operators as ≡, ≠”
It's called font ligatures .
Settings/Preferences
Editor | Colors and Fonts
Enable font ligatures -- select this check box to show the typographic ligatures. Note that this feature depends on the selected fonts.
I could not find dedicated blog post for this new feature .. but you can find some notes here:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2016/06/webstorm-2016-2-eap-162-646/
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/07/intellij-idea-2016-2-is-here/
video: link to this video
Original ticket: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-127539