IntelliJ做了而Eclipse没有做的两件事对我来说非常有价值:

方法分隔符:方法之间那些模糊的灰色线条使代码更具可读性

文本抗锯齿:使代码在IDE中看起来很漂亮

Intellij有一个比subversion或Subclipse优秀得多的SVN插件，而且它是有效的!我们在使用Eclipse合并源文件上所浪费的时间是无法想象的。对于IntelliJ，这不是一个问题，因为插件可以帮助你更多。

此外，Subclipse插件也不可靠——我们经常遇到插件认为其他开发人员没有将任何代码签入SVN的情况，但确实存在——CI服务器已经处理了它们!

IntelliJ具有从代码到jspx文档的智能感知和重构支持。

在IntelliJ中，您可以通过“最后编辑位置”跳过最后编辑位置的历史。Eclipse也有类似的特性，但是Eclipse只返回到编辑位置的一个级别。

拥有历史记录而不仅仅是Eclipse提供的一个级别是一个很好的生产力特性:它充当了一种自动书签的形式，因为您经常希望跳转回您进行更改的地方。我每天都要使用这个功能几次，当我被要求使用Eclipse来做某些事情时，我感到没有这个功能的痛苦。

有很多事情是idea用更简单的方法解决的，或者没有等价的方法:

Autocomplete actions: Doing ctrl+shift+a you can call any idea action from the keyboard without remembering its key combination... Think about gnome-do or launchy in windows, and you've got the idea! Also, this feature supports CamelCasing abbreviations ;) Shelf: Lets you keep easily some pieces of code apart, and then review them through the diff viewer. Local history: It's far better managed, and simpler. SVN annotations and history: simpler to inspect, and also you can easily see the history only for such a part of a whole source file. Autocomplete everywhere, such as the evaluate expression and breakpoint condition windows. Maven integration... much, much simpler, and well integrated. Refactors much closer to the hand, such as loops insertion, wrapping/casting, renaming, and add variables. Find much powerful and well organized. Even in big projects Much stable to work with several branches of a big project at the same time (as a former bugfixer of 1.5Gb by branch sources, and the need to working in them simultaneously, idea shown its rock-solid capabilities) Cleaner and simpler interface... And, simpler to use only with the keyboard, letting apart the need of using the mouse for lots of simple taks, saving you time and giving you more focus on the code... where it matters!

现在，作为开源的…Idea的用户群将呈指数级增长。

Alt+Insert以列模式编辑文本。