idea-sbt-plugin beta version

[Jason Zaugg]

idea-sbt-plugin [1] integrates the SBT console into IntelliJ IDEA, allowing you to interactively run commands, use SBT to compile your project before running/debugging, and hyperlink compiler error messages to the editor.

I'm preparing the next release with some features and bug fixes:

 - Support command history

 - Bundle SBT launcher

 - Allow selection of java.exe used to run SBT

For Idea 11: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106552/idea-sbt-plugin-1.4.0-SNAPSHOT.zip

For Idea 12: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106552/idea-sbt-plugin-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.zip

I'd appreciate any feedback [2] on regressions from early adopters before I publish it to the plugin repository this weekend.

-jason

[1] https://github.com/orfjackal/idea-sbt-plugin/wiki

[2] https://github.com/orfjackal/idea-sbt-plugin/issues?direction=desc&sort=created&state=open

[ijuma]

Hi Jason,

On Wednesday, 18 July 2012 08:40:58 UTC+1, Jason Zaugg wrote:

 - Support command history

Tested this on Idea 11 and it works great. Thanks!

 

I'd appreciate any feedback [2] on regressions from early adopters before I publish it to the plugin repository this weekend.

One issue I am seeing is choppy scrolling. Also, the UI looks a bit odd when triggered execution (i.e. '~') is used.

Best,

Ismael

[Jason Zaugg]

On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:51:31 PM UTC+2, Paolo Giarrusso wrote:

Hi, I like this plugin and I just installed this 1.4 beta. Having an history is cool, yet my gut feeling with the beta is horrible. The problem is with the usability of the prompt.

I apologize in advance for using strong words such as "horrible", but that reflects pretty well what it feels like. Please don't take it personal - consider that as a signal of how deeply hardwired is my expectation of how a prompt works.

How does this split-window-and-double-prompt thing work? My first gut feeling is that it's so unusable that I don't get it and I can't describe what's wrong. Some minutes of study reveal while usually the a prompt appears in a console **if and only if** that console "I'm waiting for a command", here the relation is violated in a number of ways. You use green and black for writing, and I guess that has some meaning, and maybe the system is perfectly usable when knowing that. But I have no clue what this use of color is about.

Part of the problem is already the prompt below, which _always_ displays a prompt and accepts commands. It should just show SBT's prompt _when_ it appears. Moreover, when one presses Enter there, a prompt _always_ appears immediately. While usually I can tell whether something is running by the presence or absence of a prompt, here I can't, and I have to resort to checking whether there's a completion message - which I'm not sure is guaranteed to be at the end. Years of using Unix/*x consoles for mant hours a day train this behavior away - you seldom get completion messages. Moreover, checking whether a prompt is there **always** works.
Finally, the only other signal (IDEA's count of background tasks) is too far away on the screen (in the middle) and unreliable (pressing Enter N times during compilation adds N tasks there).

Thanks for the feedback, you raise some good points. 

I'm using a new facility in IDEA 11 called a Language Console, in which text entry is done in a different editor panel from the history. This fixed the history problem; and wil enable me to add autocompletion. I haven't tweaked the UI much from the IntelliJ standard, other than to colorize the history and add hyperlinks.

I'll see if I can add a visual cue that the previous command is in progress.

-jason

[Jason Zaugg]

On Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:32:01 AM UTC+2, Jason Zaugg wrote:

Thanks for the feedback, you raise some good points. 

I'm using a new facility in IDEA 11 called a Language Console, in which text entry is done in a different editor panel from the history. This fixed the history problem; and wil enable me to add autocompletion. I haven't tweaked the UI much from the IntelliJ standard, other than to colorize the history and add hyperlinks.

I'll see if I can add a visual cue that the previous command is in progress.

I've just uploaded new versions of the plugin that improve the prompt UI: the '>' and the caret are hidden until the previous command completes.

The slight choppiness in the output is still there; there is a hard-coded 200ms delay in the IntelliJ widget I'm using, and I can't change that without duplicating reams of code. I have forced a flush of the output before the next prompt is shown, which might help perceived performance though.

For Idea 11: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106552/idea-sbt-plugin-1.4.0-SNAPSHOT.zip

For Idea 12: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106552/idea-sbt-plugin-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.zip

-jason

[ijuma]

On Friday, 20 July 2012 10:25:20 UTC+1, Jason Zaugg wrote:

I've just uploaded new versions of the plugin that improve the prompt UI: the '>' and the caret are hidden until the previous command completes.

Thanks. I am getting the following and the StartSbtAction is no longer showing.

11:07:46 AM Throwable: icon path=/toolwindows/toolWindowRun.png class=class net.orfjackal.sbt.plugin.SbtConsole$StartSbtAction

The slight choppiness in the output is still there; there is a hard-coded 200ms delay in the IntelliJ widget I'm using, and I can't change that without duplicating reams of code.

Maybe time for a RFE?

Best,

Ismael

[Jason Zaugg]

On Friday, July 20, 2012 12:10:27 PM UTC+2, ijuma wrote:

On Friday, 20 July 2012 10:25:20 UTC+1, Jason Zaugg wrote:

I've just uploaded new versions of the plugin that improve the prompt UI: the '>' and the caret are hidden until the previous command completes.

Thanks. I am getting the following and the StartSbtAction is no longer showing.

11:07:46 AM Throwable: icon path=/toolwindows/toolWindowRun.png class=class net.orfjackal.sbt.plugin.SbtConsole$StartSbtAction

Oh sorry; cherry-picked to much to the Idea 11 branch. Please try again. 

 

The slight choppiness in the output is still there; there is a hard-coded 200ms delay in the IntelliJ widget I'm using, and I can't change that without duplicating reams of code.

Maybe time for a RFE?

http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-89092

 

-jason

[Paolo Giarrusso]

I'm now testing the new snapshot (just downloaded).

The prompt now is fine, thanks! I was not sure, but since input is still enabled, it's still possible to interrupt incrementally executed commands (i.e. '~something').

I'm also testing for another bug: in the previous snapshot, the history storage itself did not work (it stopped learning new commands at some point, as if unable to remove old commands when the history was full). Now it seems to work again, but let's see.

Cheers,

Paolo

[ijuma]

On Friday, 20 July 2012 10:25:20 UTC+1, Jason Zaugg wrote:

For Idea 12: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106552/idea-sbt-plugin-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.zip

Is there a version that works with the latest EAP of Leda?

Best,

Ismael

[Gerolf Seitz]

This is a build containing the changes of  https://github.com/retronym/idea-sbt-plugin/pull/1

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5671055/idea-sbt-plugin-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.zip 

Regards,

  Gerolf

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