Typing in build.gradle in IntelliJ Idea is slow

Question

So, I got weird problem. I moved from Eclipse to IntelliJ Idea. And when I'm typing/editing file build.gradle it's... lagging, very hard to write anything there. What can cause that? Refreshing didn't help.

Added plugin: apply plugin: 'idea' But can't see in IntelliJ Idea tasks for idea in Gradle perspective. When I open Eclipse everythings works fine, with Gradle plugin for eclipse I can see these tasks in the project etc. the idea tasks are only available from command line, not from intellij idea gui.

But I want to fix that annoying thing with typing in build.gradle... why it is lagging?!

Please, help.

Answer 1

Been troubled by this myself recently. Was extremely slow just editing text in the build file like OP describes. Just solved it. When you've opened a project and added a build.gradle file afterwards it seems you have to "link the gradle project" for intellij to work as it should while editing this file.

One way of doing it:

• Close Intellij if it's open.
• When the IDE is loaded up it'll give you a notification of an unlinked gradle project. Follow the tip in that notification box and all should be well.

A second way:

• Close the project from intellij. File -> close project.
• In the following welcome dialogue choose to import a project.
• Pick "import from an external model" and then select Gradle as the model. Should be working.

Answer 2

The following exclusion to my save actions plugin alleviated the problem for me:build\.gradle