hi - i've got the 12 ultimate edition idea and am trying to work out what plugin would contain the appcode functionality (my impression is that other intellij products are basically intellij idea plus a hard-wired plugin - pycharm is like the intellij idea python plugin, for example). but i'm having a hard time finding an objective c plugin. do you have any idea what it might be called? thanks.

AppCode is the exception to the rule. It's a totally separate app that only runs on Mac OS X. None of it's features are available in IntelliJ. (Having said that, a lot of the base IDE remains the same so the general UI and keystrokes carry over).

I think AppCode is the exception to that tendency. I've never been able to get it to do as you'd like.