Intellij – git, visual interactive rebasing, local history and SuperCollider

Wow, I’ve just discovered that the git integration in Intellij IDEA is quite advanced. It even does visual interactive rebasing, something which I couldn’t find in any of the shiny looking (and non-free) osx git visual apps.

It also automatically saves your files on every change and kees a private list of changes for the last couple of minutes/hours, which is basically a capable undo system for programmers.

Finally, today I’ve discovered that Intellij is actually a capable editor for SuperCollider classes. I use it to edit classes, but still rely on the SuperCollider app to run the actual code. I’ve made a basic xml file for supercollider syntax support.

I get for free the nice font rendering of plain text, all the git + local history functionality, tabbed editing, and folder layout with all my files. Also, it automatically strips whitespace, and I can position the cursor anywhere in the file and start typing