title: IntelliJ IDEA inspect variable like Eclipse (Cmd-Shift-I)
body: <p>I recently moved from Eclipse to IDEA and by and large have been very pleased with it. However, there is one Eclipse feature that I miss terribly after all this time: <em>evaluating expressions on-the-fly while debugging</em>.</p>
  
  <p>The way debug expressions are rendered by default in IntelliJ IDEA produces very long tooltips which are kind of hard to dismiss (and more importantly very hard to read while trying to sift through the information being displayed). By contrast, Eclipse renders debug expressions using a two-pane popup window which includes a text area to display text inclusive of newlines thus making the display far more optimal (see attached pictures).</p>
  
  <p><strong>IntelliJ IDEA</strong>
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/o38Nm.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/o38Nm.jpg" alt="Silly IDEA Tooltip"></a></p>
  
  <p><strong>Eclipse</strong>
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VTgBg.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VTgBg.png" alt="Eclipse Tooltip"></a></p>
  
  <p>Is this something we need to live with?</p>