'Immediate' window for IntelliJ

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Jon Onstott picture Jon Onstott · Jun 24, 2010 · Viewed 23.7k times · Source

I'm using IntelliJ 9 and I'm curious if there is any IntelliJ equivalent of the Visual Studio 'immediate' debug window. There is selecting the desired expression in the editor, then ALT-F8 to evaluate the expression, but I'd like to be able to write code in a window that interacts with what I am currently debugging (if that's even possible).

Having breakpoints that log messages to the console is helpful, but I'd like to do more than that if I can.

Answer

Noel Ang picture Noel Ang · Jun 25, 2010

Intellij IDEA's Expression Evaluation dialog has a button to enable Code Fragment Mode, which permits multi-statement evaluations. (I'm using version 9.0.2 of the Ultimate Edition.)

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