When I'm writing code in intellij and make an errors, it highlists code with erros, when I put mouse over it, it displays detailed error message. The problem is I can't copy it. When i'm moving mouse over pop-up baloon message and start selecting the message, baloon disappears. In eclipse there is a feature 'focus' on F2 with allows you to focus it on pop-up so it becames a modal window and won't disappear when you move mouse away. is there such feature in intellij idea or is there any other way to copy error message?
EDIT: I just figured out that I need to:
- very carefully move mouse down to baloon,
- very carefully move mouse to the left side, but only to the left side of the text, not baloon
- press left mouse button, then very carefully move mouse to the right side of text, not baloon
- without releasing left mouse button press ctrl+c.
Come on! that's really annoying, is there a 'focus' feature feature like F2 in Eclipse?
EDIT2: another way of doing this:
- carefully move mouse down to baloon message
- hold left mouse button
- without releasing left mouse button press ctrl and then really fast A then C
It'll make baloon message to go away, but if you're lucky enough you'll manage to select all text from baloon and copy it. With certain practice it's really faster then method #1.
Still no "normal" way to do this.
I found that if I compile class, I can get error messages, but they can be completely different and if my class doesn't compile, I won't get my error message at all.
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UPDATE: It works via Alt+Click in the current IDE versions, but there are still several usability issues: it's not discoverable, doesn't work for all the pop-ups and may copy additional text/keyboard shortcut symbols. There is also a request to make it more straightforward by allowing to copy only selected text via Ctrl+C.
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