Hypervisors such as Parallels can do this ('optimised for gaming'), so it should be possible for Citrix as well. There should be a way (in full screen mode) to completely ignore / circumvent the Mac and send all keystrokes directly to the VM, including the Windows/Start key. So: How can I work with IntelliJ, given that I have to use a Mac for the Citrix receiver? I also tried to load the Mac keyboard shortcuts into IntelliJ / Windows and use a Mac keyboard, but this is even worse: Almost all shortcuts use the command key on a real Mac, which is not sent to IntelliJ in Windows. This will be intercepted by the Mac and execute a keyboard layout switch instead.Īctually almost none of the usual shortcuts work because of the Mac/PC mixup. I believe last time I decided to try and set up IntelliJ Ultimate to work with everything, but it felt kind of lacking in features.Simple and common IntelliJ / Windows shortcuts do not work, such as Ctrl-Space for code completion. I hate the idea of having to switch between IDEs for different things, like going to CLion for C++ stuff and then over to PHPStorm for PHP stuff. It eats up a TON of memory on my computer, which I already expected considering most of the IDEs I've tried do, but neovim gives me almost everything I need with barely any memory consumption. Some of these I couldn't figure out in IntelliJ. One thing I love about Neovim is I can have it display characters at the end of lines, show trailing spaces, show tab characters, etc. For example, the TailwindCSS plugin is broken last time I checked and does not work in React files, while I have flawless TailwindCSS autocompletion working in my Neovim setup. There's not as wide of a variety of plugins to choose from, and some of them are completely broken. In order to open a file, I have to go through the hassle of opening or creating a project.

Some notable things for me (1 & 2 are the biggest deal breakers for me):

However, I often find things either lacking or small features missing that I'd really like. I love it a lot more than fugitive + gitsigns. Some things I love about JetBrains, such as the Git integration. I mainly use Neovim, however I've attempted to try using JetBrains with the IdeaVim plugin several times. I have a love hate relationship with JetBrains IDEs.

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