Some might call them blasphemers, we prefer to think of them as peacemakers. There are coding polyglots out there who dabble in more than one back-end programming language, and do it using a single IDE. However, unlike Ancient Greece, modern programmers are (slightly) more flexible. There is always a battle raging for supremacy, and in 2020, the battle still rages between Java and Python. And, like the ancient Greeks, most developers choose to “worship” one or two commonly used programming languages. The back-end programming world is not unlike Mount Olympus. As the battle raged, most of the the Gods took Zeus’s side, because who wants to mess a guy that shoots lightning, but some of the more disgruntled Gods took Hades’ side and the battle raged. Hades nearly usurped his brother, Zeus, in a battle for control. String selectedText = caretModel.getCurrentCaret().getSelectedText() Įven though this action is the same for both editor and console windows, accessing the selected text works the same way.Zeus, the eternal king of the gods, faced some hard times while trying to maintain his reign. To get the text to search for, we'll use the Editor API to retrieve highlighted text on the screen: final Editor editor = e.getRequiredData(CommonDataKeys.EDITOR) ĬaretModel caretModel = editor.getCaretModel()

For example, we could use the PSI to find all public methods in a Java class. Note that the PSI also provides language-specific details about a file. Language lang = e.getData(CommonDataKeys.PSI_FILE).getLanguage() In this case, we use the PSI to determine the programming language of a file: PsiFile file = e.getData(CommonDataKeys.PSI_FILE) This API parses all the files in a project and provides a programmatic way to inspect them. To get the language tag, we'll use the Program Structure Interface. One is the language tag, and the other is the text to search for. First, though, we need to collect two values for StackOverflow.

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