Description Mauro Molinari 2018-11-06 04:21:20 EST

Consider the following code:

package test;

public class Test {
  void foo() {
	  throw new IllegalStateException("aaa |" );
  }
}

Assume "|" is the cursor position. Try to type: { (open curly brace)

Expected behaviour:

throw new IllegalStateException("aaa {");

Actual behaviour:

throw new IllegalStateException("aaa ") {;

Indeed, it seems like the editor tries to propose some sort of "create new anonymous inner class" proposal, but it's very annoying that this is triggered when I'm typing inside a string literal, because it's indeed an undesired behaviour.

By trial and error I discovered that if you hit backspace immediately, the "{" is put back into the string literal, but when this happens you usually have a "WTF" moment and hitting backspace immediately after the "{" is not the first thing that comes into your mind, especially because you meanwhile may have written something else after the "{", and then pressing backspace repeatedly is useless to recover: you'll end up deleting the undesired output and trying again to put it inside the string literal, in an endless loop... It's a bit frustrating ;-)