Check for Updates on the welcome screen showed nothing while the request was out: the check ran only as a status-bar task, and the welcome screen has no status bar. Leaving a project also dropped every notification, including a running update download.
A check started with no project or LightEdit window open now shows its progress in a balloon (keyed like the result, so the result replaces it); project windows keep it in the status bar. A project switch clears only project notifications and keeps the app-wide update ones.
Co-authored-by: youngtseup <[email protected]>
Workspaces open several local project folders in one IDE session (File › New / Open / Manage Workspace…, or Attach when opening a project, which creates a workspace automatically for a plain project window). Member folders are the Project view roots and take part in indexing, Find in Files, Git, language servers, run configurations and builds; agent tasks choose which member they work in. Window › Merge All Project Windows groups project windows into one window with project tabs (switch, reorder, close, move to a new window), restored on reopen.
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Files can now be opened without a project. A file dropped on the Welcome screen, picked with File › Open File…, or passed on the command line or to a second instance opens in a lightweight window: editor tabs only, with no project tree, indexing, language servers, VCS or project tool windows. Syntax highlighting, find, save, undo and Local History still work. More files opened later join the same window as new tabs. Open as Project in the status bar opens the file's directory as a full project, following the open-project policy, and reopens the file there.
Backend: a light session reuses Project with an unindexed index, no LSP or VCS, and a flat watch on each opened file's directory. It is never reused as a project for the same root. Previously a file passed at launch opened its parent directory as a project.
Root cause: once a project was open, nothing outside the Project view handled files dropped from the OS, so drops onto the editor, tabs or other tool windows were ignored.
A window-wide handler now opens dropped files in the editor (one tab each, last one focused, files outside the project included) and opens a dropped folder as a project through the open-project policy. Regions that handle drops themselves (Project view, agent prompt box) are marked with OWNS_FILE_DROP and hit-tested, so each drop has a single handler; the Welcome screen and remote windows are left alone.
Project & files
- Project view modes (Project Files / Open Files / All Changed Files /
Scratches); External Libraries for Python, JDK (src.zip), Node, Cargo, Go,
Maven/Gradle jars; read-only jar/zip browsing
- ⌘N New popup with type search and more file kinds; New Project, Rename
Project, Reload All from Disk, Export/Import Settings, Power Save Mode
- File type associations, extra content roots and exclude patterns (indexed
and watched without reopening the project)
Editor & navigation
- Find bar: search scope (comments/strings), Preserve Case, Exclude, multiline,
history; Find in Files: Module scope, custom pattern scopes, multiline
- Search Everywhere filters, Assign Shortcut, settings results; named bookmark
lists, file/folder bookmarks; Structure filters and Show Inherited; Recent
Locations timestamps and breadcrumbs; Code Vision author
- Completion options, editor tab placement/layout, inline completion (LSP 3.18)
- Spell checking (Typo inspection, ide-spell) and Inspections settings with
custom profiles; Code Style schemes, formatter markers, Do not format
Run, VCS, services, database
- Typed run configurations (Shell, Program, npm, Gradle, Maven, Docker,
Compound), Modify options, Before launch, env dialog, Current File,
Emulate terminal (PTY)
- Git log graph/view options, Go to Hash/Branch/Tag, date filter keeps the
graph; Pull/Merge/Rebase dialogs, Manage Remotes, Worktrees
- Generic Services host (Docker connections/registries, run sessions); TODO
scope/changes tabs with changelists; Coverage report import
- Data sources: wire-compatible vendors, URL import, SSL certs, Options,
Schemas and Advanced tabs, color and comment
Workbench
- Run Anything, Customize Main Toolbar, named tool window layouts, menu
completeness, Code Cleanup, macros, "Don't Show Again", editor banners
- Chinese translations for the new UI
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SaPPsVPuk6ZTNsoUCNCbMv
* feat: Second pass aligning interactions with IntelliJ IDEA
Result tool windows
- Next/Previous Occurrence (⌥⌘↓/↑) across Find, Usages, Problems, TODO,
Inspection and Hierarchy, with an "N of M" status hint
- Find: reuse the unpinned tab, Pin Tab, source preview, group by file or
directory, exclude moves to the next result, Rerun
- Usages: tabs with pinning, exclude and preview
- Problems, TODO, Inspection: no autoscroll by default, severity-first sorting,
context menu with quick fixes and copy description
- Trees: F4/⌘↓ jump to source; speed search Home/End and arrow handling
Find in Files, bookmarks, navigation
- Replace mode: Enter replaces the selection, ⇧⌥Enter replaces all, multi-select
- Pin Window toggle, highlighted read-only preview, search/replace history (⌥↓),
Alt mnemonics, search context filter (comments / string literals)
- Mnemonic bookmarks (⌥F3, ⌃⇧digit, ⌃digit), ⌘F3 bookmarks popup, descriptions,
⌘-click gutter toggles a bookmark
- Select In popup (⌥F1); Recent Locations double-click and Delete;
Search Everywhere remembers the query per tab
Code insight and refactoring
- Extract/Introduce continue with in-place rename and name suggestions;
expression and occurrence choosers with live highlighting
- Safe Delete confirms first; numbered Refactor This
- Quick Documentation history, in-popup links and a Documentation tool window;
Quick Definition switches between targets and shows the whole declaration
- Goto chooser lists symbol names and can pin to the Find window
- Parameter Info Tab/⇧Tab, intention preview, Reformat dialog and summary,
inlay hint ⌘-click and context menu
- Live templates: Enter moves to the next field, two-step Esc, ⌘J as a lookup,
language surrounders with mnemonics
- File Structure popup as a filterable tree; Show Usages filter and preview;
call hierarchy jumps to call sites
Editor
- Paste re-indents each line by default; Move Statement moves whole statements
in and out of blocks and re-indents
- Type over closing quotes of existing strings; ⌘D/⌘⌫ cover folded regions;
⌥⌫ deletes the preceding word
- ⌃G / ⌃⌘G whole-word rules and wrap hint; double-modifier caret cloning
- Visual-column block selection, nested Collapse All, recursive folding,
fold selection toggle, Go to Matching Brace, gutter drag selects lines,
sticky line and error stripe clicks, Insert toggles overwrite mode
Run, VCS, workbench
- Gutter icons show the last test result; Modify Run Configuration; test tree
hides passed tests, context menu and assertion diff
- Stack frames resolve by fully qualified class name; context run chooser
- Inline Smart Step Into
- Git Log multi-select filters, "me" and date range; favourite branches,
Fetch and tags in the branch popup; stash Keep index and Unstash options
- Terminal tab titles follow the shell; Distraction Free persists; gear menu;
sticky balloons move to the notifications tool window after a while
* fix(vcs): Label restored local changes as yours after Smart Checkout; name the branch checked out
Conflicts from restoring stashed changes show the user's uncommitted
changes on the left like other operations, and the checkout notification
names the new branch instead of the previous one.
* fix: Close the merge editor on Apply; confirm before terminating a running Run tab
Like IDEA, applying a merge result closes its tab, and closing a Run tab
whose process still runs asks before terminating it (with a Settings
toggle and "Do not ask again").
* fix(terminal): Don't start a new session in the background after closing the last tab
The hidden Terminal window stays mounted, so it reopened a session as soon
as the last tab closed. It now opens the Local tab only once the window is
shown again, as IDEA does.
* fix(vcs): Start the merge result from a three-way merge; close the editor on Apply
The result pane now begins with non-conflicting changes merged and each
conflict showing the base text, resolved from the side panes, instead of
raw conflict markers. Apply now reports success, so the tab closes.
fix(search): Match File Structure filter on word starts
* fix: Limit Smart Step Into to the paused line; drop usages hints on callbacks; show full intention titles
Adapters that list every remaining call in the function (debugpy) made Smart
Step Into fall back to a chooser that offered calls from later lines. Targets
are now narrowed to the calls on the paused line, so they are picked in place.
Anonymous functions and callbacks no longer get a 'no usages' hint, and
intention titles are no longer cut short when there is room for them.
* fix: Undo / Redo from the Edit menu and Find Action use the editor's history
They ran the webview's native undo, which misses programmatic edits such as
templates, completion and refactorings, so nothing happened in the editor.
* feat(nav): Complete file paths and flag unresolved web file references
Path completion in href/src/url()/@import, Markdown links and path-like strings, folders first. HTML and CSS paths that name no file get a 'Cannot resolve file' warning. File references resolve in the backend like IDEA's: relative to the file, /-rooted against the project and resource roots.
* feat: Align editor, workbench, run/debug and VCS interactions with IntelliJ IDEA
Keymap
- Let AltGr characters through instead of firing Ctrl+Alt shortcuts (Windows/Linux)
- Double Shift: strict press/release timing, ignored while typing or after Shift+click
- Chords wait 2s and swallow an unmatched second stroke
- Drop CodeMirror defaults that clash with IDEA keys; ⌘Enter is Split Line, add
Scroll to Center and Code Block Start/End
- Add missing IDEA defaults (⌃J, ⌘Y, ⇧⌘C, ⌥⌘Y, ⇧⌘M, F9 Resume, ⌘R Rerun, …)
Editor
- Tab inserts at the caret; smart Backspace to the proper indent; Enter continues
a `//` comment; per-language line comment placement
- Back/Forward records navigations only; ⌘F searches the selected text
- In-place rename; ⌃Space inserts a sole candidate; commit characters only for a
focused lookup; usage highlighting survives edits; ⌥Enter offers fixes from the
caret line; ⌘-hover shows declaration info only for navigable targets
Workbench
- Tool windows: primary and split area per side, six Move To anchors, layout migration
- ⌘W closes tool window content; Shift+Esc from the editor; closing a tab
activates the left neighbour; preview tab and tab limit follow IDEA defaults
- Switcher lists open editors and tool windows; Recent Files Delete removes items
- Search Everywhere tab/scope behaviour; popups close when the window deactivates
- Project view: Copy/Move dialogs on paste, skippable usage search on delete,
new-file input cancels on blur; Settings search Esc clears the filter
- Status bar breadcrumbs open a children popup; notification timeouts
Run / Debug / Build / Terminal
- Run asks to stop a running single-instance config; Rerun restarts silently;
"Allow multiple instances" option
- Run chooser: Enter runs, Shift debugs, F4/Delete/digits
- Type into the console for stdin; Stop covers debug sessions
- Log (Shift+click) and temporary (Alt+click) breakpoints; independent suspend/log
options; Evaluate prefill and history; changed-value highlighting; expandable hints
- Build window opens on failure and jumps to the first error
- Terminal confirms closing a busy tab and lets IDE shortcuts through
VCS
- Correct ours/theirs labels during rebase, cherry-pick and revert
- Smart/Force Checkout; remote branch checkout updates the local branch
- Partial commit by changed block; inline before-commit check results
- F7 continues into the next file; Rollback Lines; Commit and Push; Amend message swap
- Branch delete with Restore; force push confirmation; editable push target;
update summary with the incoming commits
* chore: Regenerate bindings
Opening another project in the same window left the previous project's state in
module-level stores: Amend and the commit message carried over, debug sessions kept
running, and Git Log, usages, hierarchy, inspection, HTTP client, recent locations,
navigation history and notifications still showed the old project.
Reset each of them on a project root change, stop the old debug sessions, ask about
unsaved changes before leaving a project, close the settings window (it would apply
to the new project) and end the indexing task when a scan is cancelled.
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