Preferences pane locks up IDE for minutes

[chuckadams]

1. Open Preferences | Editor | Custom Postfix Templates
2. Click any of the template files, say, xylo.stdlib

I get the Beach Ball Of Death and have usually had to force kill IDEA, but I've discovered that it does eventually unlock after several minutes of 100% CPU. It's quite responsive after that, at least til the next time I start IDEA.

[xylo]

I'm sorry that you discovered this freezing bug of the settings dialog. I recently figured out that the settings dialog of this plugin freezes when an IDEA background process is running (indexing). So the current workaround is to open the CPT settings after the indexing is completed or wait until the freezing is gone (until the indexing has finished). I marked the corresponding bug #135 now as critical.

Moreover, I agree that the plugin is currently not very intuitive for new users. But there is a plan to improve that (#136).

If you want to create new postfix templates for language X, open a source code of language X and press shift+alt+P (shortcut for Tools->Custom Postfix Templates->Edit templates of current language). Then you are probably ask to create a new template file for user templates. Go ahead and you are ready to write your first templates.

[tedyoung]

I have the same problem with the most recent released plugin and IDEA 2019.3.1. I did not have any indexing active, but the preferences pane would lock up for 50-90 seconds.

[zxeoc]

I have the same problem with the most recent released plugin and IDEA 2019.3.1. I did not have any indexing active, but the preferences pane would lock up for 50-90 seconds.

It's not just locked up by indexing, it's locked up by all the backgroud processing.