Oh dear, seems IDEA has begun inserting exotic characters instead of using the keyboard shortcuts that I’ve defined. Eg. alt+d yields ð

Any clues as to why? I’ve tried toggling structural editing, to no avail

@grav: It’s a JDK issue. Are you on a Mac?

Have you just upgraded IntelliJ, or the JDK it runs on?

I just upgraded to osx 10.11

Hmm

But I did so on two machines, and only saw this problem on one

It’s some JDK/OS interaction, definitely. Which JDK are you using to run IntelliJ? IntelliJ IDEA->About IntelliJ IDEA

Wonder why I couldn't find anything on Google about it, if it's not a new issue

https://github.com/cursiveclojure/cursive/issues/962

Ok. If you switch to JDK 6 that fixes it.

The Apple JDK.

Apparently 1.8u60 fixes it, but AFAIK that’s not out yet.

The JRE 1.6 right? I think I need the JDK 1.8 for cljs

No, that’s just the JDK you use to run IntelliJ itself. It doesn’t affect the JDK you configure for your projects.

Ah ok. So if I just install the one from Apple, which one will IDEA use?

Should I uninstall something?

No, you shouldn’t need to uninstall anything.

I think you already have JDK6 installed anyway, it’s required for IntelliJ even if you use other JDKs IIRC.

Seems oracle has a jdk-8u60

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206827547-Selecting-the-JDK-version-the-IDE-will-run-under

Ok, nice. Note that the Oracle JDK has pretty horrible font rendering. JetBrains also has a bundled JDK but I don’t know if that’s on u60 yet. I’m also not sure which version they bundle with 14 - v15 has more recent updates I think.

See here too: https://github.com/cursiveclojure/cursive/issues/1033

I’ll write up a doc about this, the JDK situation on OSX is a total mess.

Actually, looking at that second issue, it looks like it’s now possible to run IntelliJ without JDK6 installed - maybe that’s what happened to you.

Try installing the JDK6 he links to.

ok. I’ll try u60 first and see if that works

u60 fixed it. you’re right the font rendering is a bit off

Ok. Do try JDK6 at some point too, I think your eyes will thank you

haha, true at least you have confirmation that both 8u60 and jdk6 fix the issues.

And thanks a lot for the help

No problem!

The proper solution, sooner or later, will be JetBrains’ custom JDK. It still doesn’t work well for me, but does for many people - it seems to be hardware dependent.

ok. that’s a pretty sad situation. I also experienced some text rendering and blinking problems related to the JDK when I used AppCode at some point. Hope their custom JDK fixes it across their products

I’m on JDK 6, and the Alt+key doesn’t work there for me

I think you need to be on 8u60 or higher for that

@danielcompton: works fine on jdk 6 for me

Lucky you

😉

@danielcompton: Weird, everyone else I’ve suggested it to has found that JDK6 fixes that problem.