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When I develop with intellij (in java fyi), if I update for instance the return type of a method, I'm expecting intellij to mark all the files that are now not compiling without me doing a right-click compile.

I'm looking for such an option but I don't know where this is.

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There is no such option 'out of the box'. IntelliJ just works different than, for example, Eclipse when it comes to compiling. Eclipse recompiles all files that are affected by a change as soon as you save your changes. In IntelliJ there are two ways of checking the effect of your changes:

  1. Trigger the compilation explicitly with Make Project or the compile action CTRL-SHIFT-F9.
  2. Open one of the affected classes: only then will IDEA's Inspections mechanism start checking it for errors.

The advantage is that you have less file system load while you are coding.

But as described in this answer, there is a plugin to achieve what you want (even though it seems to have some performance pitfalls): https://stackoverflow.com/a/12744431/5788215

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  • interesting ! I'll try this plugin and will see if my computer can smoothly accept the compiling effort. – Orpheo Jan 15 '16 at 12:54