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If you know what you're doing, you can also use this option line to tweak the
VM
's
garbage-collection strategy and other settings, although it's recommended that
you leave everything other than the memory allocation to the default values.
The memory options have been removed from the .lax file and put into the
idea.exe.vmoptions file. The same options are used, one option per line.
On the Mac, things work a little differently. In the
IDEA
installation directory,
open the file bin/idea.app/Contents/Info.plist in a text editor, and look at the bot-
tom of the
XML
under the key
VMOptions
. It looks something like this:
<key>VMOptions</key>
<string>-Xms16m -Xmx128m</string>
Change the
VM
options to whatever minimum and maximum values you want,
and then restart
IDEA
to see the changes take effect.
If you rerun the installer or update your
IDEA
installation to a newer ver-
sion, you'll lose your memory configuration changes.
WARNING
12.8 Summary
IDEA
is the most highly configurable
IDE
on the market today. It has been
designed so that everything can be customized, resulting in a natural feel for any
developer. You can configure and access all options via keyboard shortcuts,
including your custom-written Ant targets.
IDEA
, unlike any other
IDE
, lets you
configure how you want to interact with the
IDE
, instead of the
IDE
dictating how
it wants to be used.
Beyond the bounds of the developer,
IDEA
also helps work within a team stan-
dard. A high level of code management and code formatting means you can fol-
low standards with a minimum of fuss. All of
IDEA
's code-generation features are
run through the code formatting rules, so you can rest assured that while you're
developing, the style of the code is consistent.
Although
IDEA
is one of the most capable
IDE
s on the market, and the most
configurable, it's also the easiest on the eyes. You're probably going to have to stare
at it all day, every day.
IDEA
doesn't leave you high and dry here either, because you
can configure every color on the screen for everything that loads into the editor. All
this customizability lets
IDEA
lives up to its tag: Develop with pleasure.
