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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by sombremesa on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:39AM (#21797062)
Oh boy. This is how I feel any time I touch a coworker's computer to try and peer program or help them out. I have so many shortcuts (Keyboard Maestro), workflows (Alfred 3), keybinding changes (Karabiner), and utility programs (Amethyst, Spectacle) on top of this IDE thing (I use intelliJ and coworkers use VSCode) that I immediately press a bunch of keys (out of muscle memory) and invariably something completely unexpected happens. It's super frustrating - but I doubt anything can be done about it other than sticking to my machine.
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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by bonestamp2 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:05PM (#21797254)
If you pair program a lot you could export your Intellij settings and switch to that profile when you're on their machine. But it sounds like that only handles some of the changes that you'd need (you could move any of your Intellij related key bindings from Karabiner into Intellij to get a little closer).
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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by sombremesa on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:43PM (#21797554)
Not sure IntelliJ can handle key mapping the same way as Karabiner - for example, my right option key (only the right one, not the left) is mapped to command + space. Good tip nevertheless!
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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by bonestamp2 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @06:07PM (#21799617)
Ya, fair enough... I too have some Karabiner mappings that can't be done in IntelliJ. If you're serious about it, another option could be to get a programmable keyboard so many of the keybindings are right in the keyboard and you could just plug your keyboard in to the other person's computer.
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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by lowercased on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:33PM (#21798396)
perhaps at some point IntelliJ/JB will offer the 'live share' functionality vscode has had for over a year.

live edit someone else's project on your computer with your editor/keybindings/etc.

or you could switch to vscode for the times when you want/need to assist them.

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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by crazysim on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:54PM (#21798529)
They're teasing something about this for H1 2020. I am really looking forward to it.
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