IntelliJ: what's the difference between SBT Console and SBT Shell?

Question

In IntelliJ, I see two tool windows: SBT Console and * SBT Shell. What is the difference between these tools?

Answer 1

You may have installed both the scala and sbt plugins, a newer version of the scala plugin had sbt as part of it.

sbt console is the sbt plugin, click the start button, you will enter sbt interactive mode.

sbt shell is part of the scala plugin, which is similar to the aforementioned sbt console and can execute autocomplete commands.

There are several descriptions: https://blog.jetbrains.com/scala/2017/03/23/scala-plugin-for-intellij-idea-2017-1-cleaner-ui-sbt-shell-repl-worksheet-akka- support-and-more /