I've tried IDEA briefly a few times but what gets me is the lack of an error pane that's as compact and descriptive as the one in Eclipse - the pain of using Eclipse 4.x is tempting me to ignore that limitation, however.
I know it's possible to get some of it with inspections but what I really want is something that combines errors+warnings together and gives me instant feedback. Am I just missing something that's really there?
A million times this. Your screenshot doesn't show it, but Eclipse's error pane shows all errors and warnings from all source files in the project. This is very useful and not possible in IDEA or NetBeans. So it's easier to overlook errors and I never have the same feeling of knowing about things that need attention in my projects.
Does anyone know if it's possible to get this in IDEA? http://i.stack.imgur.com/1kTPd.png
I know it's possible to get some of it with inspections but what I really want is something that combines errors+warnings together and gives me instant feedback. Am I just missing something that's really there?