I’ve just experimented a bit with the Kotlin REPL in IntelliJ IDEA 15 (Kotlin 1.0.0-beta-4584). But it doesn’t work properly (or I do something wrong). Take a look at the following screen shot:
No error message when you hover over an error marker?
Apparently it’s not finding the listOf method. My best (and wild) guess is that the Kotlin version on your class path doesn’t match the version of your IntelliJ Kotlin plugin.
I’ve had the same issue with the REPL. It doesn’t seem to understand auto-imports or classpaths in general yet. It’s a relatively new feature, and I guess right now the Kotlin team are working on getting 1.0 stable and released.
I’d suggesting trying it out briefly each time you upgrade the IDE. But otherwise not bothering with it for a while.