IntelliJ IDEA Essentials

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "If you keep getting OutOfMemoryError in PermGen space exceptions, try to change the -XX:MaxPermSize setting."

A block of code is set as follows:

private boolean isValid(int a) {
  return a > 15 && a < 100;
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

git clone git://git.jetbrains.org/idea/community.git idea

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, ...