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.