you think we’ll ever get runnable Kotlin scratch f...

# announcements

[Shawn]

you think we’ll ever get runnable Kotlin scratch files?

[adam-mcneilly]

What are scratch files?

[Shawn]

oh man, it’s one of my favorite IntelliJ features

[Shawn]

just lets you open a new buffer and run the code you write in it

[Shawn]

super helpful for testing new methods or sandboxing behavior

[Shawn]

ctrl/cmd+shift+n and select/type Java to open a new java scratch file

[adam-mcneilly]

That's awesome. Did not even know such a feature existed.

[poohbar]

how is that helpful for testing anything when you can't execute anything in it?

[Shawn]

it’s useful when you can execute something in it lol

[poohbar]

for me it's just a more convenient notepad with syntax highlighting

[Shawn]

do you write java?

[poohbar]

yes

[poohbar]

can you execute java?

[Shawn]

yeah, write a quick main method

[poohbar]

huh TIL, ok

[Shawn]

still needs to be in a class, but that’s nbd

[adam-mcneilly]

Yeah I tried it just now. Needs to have a class and main method but once you do that you can run things.

[Shawn]

also - if you have some code selected when you hit the shortcut, it’ll auto-select the language and copy the selected code into the scratch buffer

[adam-mcneilly]

+10000 for adding this to Kotlin. Do you have the YT issue?

[Shawn]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-10368

[bj0]

i've also been waiting for this feature, for now I just have a "scratch" unit test that I use to try things

[adam-mcneilly]

I like try.kotl.in but the lack of auto complete can be difficult.

[bj0]

try.kotl.in has a hotkey for auto-complete, but I usually want to import stuff from libraries/my code which you can't do there

[bj0]

ctrl+space

[louiscad]

Also, note that try.kotl.in supports autocomplete from imports, useful when you want to play with kotlinx.coroutines for example 😋

[ltongues]

Alright, the developer assigned to the issue reworded the issue name today. This is a good sign 😉