GoLand Tips & Tricks

This repository is a collection of tips & tricks for GoLand that can be tried any time by users.

Feel free to contribute or open issues for various features that you'd like to see added.

How to use?

Each file contains a small description of what to do.

There are two types of important comments:

• // Step X. -> this allows you to perform actions in a certain order
• // E.g. -> this allows you to know what to do at that specific point

List of Tips&Tricks

The tips and tricks can be found divided by a few major categories:

• Completion
• Editing
• Inspections
• Go Modules
• Navigation
• Refactoring
• Running, testing and debugging
• Web support
  • Tailwind
• Database support
• Plugins
  • Kubernetes
  • Markdown

Completion

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Import a package without typing its name | | | 002 | Smart Type Completion | | | 003 | Postfix Completion | | | 004 | Method-like Completion | | | 005 | (Custom) Live Templates. Use of builtin completion templates helpers | | | 006 | Partial Match Completion | | | 007 | Completion with Tab | | | 008 | Completion for type-assertion | | | 009 | Parameter name auto-generation | | | 010 | Date/Time completion | 2020.3 |

Editing

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Cyclic Expand Word / Cyclic Expand Word (Backward) | | | 002 | Parameter Info for functions and structs || | 003 | Language Injections || | 004 | Go Templates support || | 005 | Create undefined type. Use multi-cursor for struct tag Live Template. || | 006 | Extend/Shrink Selection || | 007 | Add Selection for Next Occurrence || | 008 | Completion in comments || | 009 | Function/struct literals wrapping/chopping styles | 2020.2 |

Inspections

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Detect and navigate to duplicate tags of fields in a structure | 2020.2 | | 002 | Inspection for int to string conversion (e.g. string(int)) | 2020.2 | | 003 | Inspection for lost context cancel call | 2020.3 | | 004 | Extended support for printf-style calls to pkg/errors, logurs, and zap | 2020.3 |

Go Modules

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Go mod completions support. Inspection from the IDE for local paths. | | | 002 | Support for retract directive. | 2020.3 |

Navigation

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Navigate to File. Switcher. Recent Files. Recent Locations. | | | 002 | Navigate to File. Structure Pop-up. Select in. | | | 003 | Type Hierarchy. Call Hierarchy | | | 004 | Navigate to/from symbols referenced in documentation comments | 2020.2 |

Refactoring

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Implement Interface | | | 002 | Change Signature refactoring. Move refactoring | | | 003 | Extract Interface refactoring | | | 004 | Introduce Constant/Variable refactoring. Inline refactoring | |

Running, testing and debugging

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Completion in breakpoints | | | 002 | Generate test for function. Use auto-test for testing changes. | | | 003 | Debugger Labels | | | 004 | Benchmark support | | | 005 | Smart Step Into. Debugger custom values for types using DebugString/String/Error methods. | | | 006 | Goroutines dumping | 2020.3 | | 007 | Run subtests in table tests | 2020.3 | | 008 | Add inline watches. | 2020.3 | | 009 | Testify support for different test suites containing same method name. | 2020.3 |

Web support

Tailwind

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Tailwind CSS support. | 2020.3 |

Database support

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | MongoDB databases can be queried using SQL. | 2020.3 |

Plugins

Kubernetes

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Pod logs can now be downloaded. | 2020.3 | | 002 | Open Console and Run Shell actions are now available. | 2020.3 |

Markdown

| Tip number | Contents | New in | |---|----|-----| | 001 | Mermaid.js can be rendered in Markdown files. | 2020.3 |

Setup the IDE for tips/comments/shortcut highlighting

To see the shortcuts in a nicer manner, setup the following TODOs:

• // E.g. -> \b(E\.g\. )\b.*, Case Sensitive, Color #35C03B
• // Step x. -> \b(Step \d\. )\b.*, Case Sensitive, Color #35C03B
• // Shortcut: -> \b(Shortcut: )\b.*, Case Sensitive, Color #2B80C0

Contributions welcomed

Do you have a favorite tip or trick, and you want to see it here?

Send a PR at any time, and we'll add it!

License

Apache 2, see the license.