I want to open this folder which is a GitHub repository clone(D:\Acc\Tutorials\Programming\course-angularjs) from IntelliJ IDEA, using the windows command prompt. I can open the folder using commands like subl . for Sublime text and code . for VS Code. But I couldn't find the command to open it from the IntelliJ IDEA.
D:\Acc\Tutorials\course-angularjs>subl .
I found from some other answers that there is a way from IntelliJ IDEA, which is, Tools->Create command line Launcher. But I couldn't find it in mine. I am currently using IntelliJ IDEA Community version 2019.2.
I also used <Intelli IDEA> in the command prompt without knowing what it would do. But it also didn't work.
So is there any direct command for IntelliJ IDEA to open a folder, from the Command prompt?
Use idea . to open the project from the current directory.
To know more..
I want to open a directory as a project in Intellij. The directory contains automation/ansible scripts (yaml/sh/etc) files. Tried to search for solution but with no result. How can I do this in IntelliJ?
On Mac OS, do
$ cd /path/to/the/project/root/directory
$ open -a 'IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2' &
Project will be automatically created.
The following steps works for me. I am using Ultimate 2018.2 with YAML/Ansible support plugin installed.
File>New>Project from Existing Sources or if adding as a module in existing project(s) File>New>Module from Existing Sources, then select the folder that contains the scripts.
In next window, select the Create project from existing sources option. The click Next in succeeding windows then Finish.
IntellijIDEA 13 has an embedded shell in a terminal window. That's nice.
Is it possible to open a file from within this terminal window in the IDE for editing?
Update:
What I want is an alternative way to open a file for editing from inside the IDE.
Instead of using the "Open File..." dialog I want to open a file using IDEA's built in terminal window which I now use a lot to run other commands as well.
IDEA's "Go to anything" dialog is another alternative but it only works for files within my project.
Update 2
A good enough solution has been posted here IntelliJ: how to open files in an existing IntelliJ from the command line:
$ open -b com.jetbrains.Intellij README.md
opens the file README.md in the current running IDE. It works from the embedded terminal window as well as any other Terminal emulator you are using.
Since you do want to open some files with their native application and execute commands as is, you can't reconfigure IntelliJ to open everything within itself. You can however use a batch script to send a file to IntelliJ. Save this batch somewhere in your path and you'll be able to run this from terminal and having the file opened in IntelliJ:
idea file.txt
Idea.bat example:
#echo off
setlocal
SET IJ_PATH="c:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 13.0.1\bin\idea64.exe"
IF [%1]==[] (
echo usage: %0 file_name
exit /B -1
)
IF NOT EXIST %1 (
echo %1 does not exist
exit /B -2
)
%IJ_PATH% "%~f1"
Well my question is pretty simple, how do I start two instances of IntelliJ (community edition).
When I have one instance started and I try to start another one, all that happens is that my started instance gets focus.
I'm developing Android applications using IntelliJ.
Any thoughts?
Press Ctrl+Alt+SChoose Appearance & Behavior, then System Settings, check radio button: Open project in new window.
You need to configure each instance to use its own folders for config/plugins/system locations by editing idea.properties file on Windows/Linux and Info.plist on Mac. You can find the details in FAQ.
Note that normally it's not necessary since you can open multiple projects in different IDEA frames within the same instance using File | Open or Open Recent.
CrazyCoder has roughly the right idea. However, setting the config file alone was not sufficient for me to run multiple instances. Here are my steps to get this going (in GNU/Linux, I am sure you can figure out equivalent in other systems):
Create a folder/directory per instance you want to run.
mkdir -p ~/idea/instance-0
Go to the installation directory (e.g. /opt/intellij) and copy the idea.properties (in bin) file over to your instance directory.
cp /opt/intellij/bin/idea.properties ~/idea/instance-0/
Copy 3 more directories: system, plugins, and config. I highly recommend doing this without the running instance
cp -r /opt/intellij/system ~/idea/instance-0/
cp -r /opt/intellij/plugins ~/idea/instance-0/
cp -r /opt/intellij/config ~/idea/instance-0/
mkdir ~/idea/instance-0/log
Open your idea.properties file and update the configurations for your directories:
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Uncomment this option if you want to customize path to IDE config folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
idea.config.path=${user.home}/config
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Uncomment this option if you want to customize path to IDE system folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
idea.system.path=${user.home}/system
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Uncomment this option if you want to customize path to user installed plugins folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
idea.plugins.path=${user.home}/plugins
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Uncomment this option if you want to customize path to IDE logs folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
idea.log.path=${user.home}/log
Now, you can start IntelliJ with the new setup:
IDEA_PROPERTIES=~/idea/instance-0/idea.properties /opt/intellij/bin/idea
Obviously, you probably want to put the command in a script file for invocation. This seems to work for me.
File->Settings->General and in section "Startup/Shutdown" check "Confirm window to open project in"
With Ultimate 2020.2, go to Appearance & Behavior > System Settings in the settings dialog and select the "Ask" option for "Open project in"
As per the directions from jetbrains you'll need go to the 'General' page of the 'Settings' dialog and chose 'Open project in a new window'. Then proceed to open a project as you normally do. IntelliJ should then startup a completely new instance.
There is an other very quick way of doing it. There is always an EAP version of the IDE and it can run at same time with the current one. For example I am using AppCode 2017.2 and 2017.3 EAP in parallel.
Go go to IntelliJ | Tools | Create Command-line Launcher...
Keep the defaults (which creates a binary named "idea"):
Now, go to your command line.
Cd to your project directory and type: idea .
This will create a .idea directory for IntelliJ configurations for that project, which it will re-use each time to start IntelliJ from that directory.
You can now go to a different project directory and type: idea .
Assuming you left the previous IntellJ IDE open, you will now have two IntellJ IDEs open, one for each project.
Notes:
1) If your project uses environment variables, then I'd recommending opening a separate terminal tab/window for each project and set that project's environment variables before running: idea .
2) Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, you may need to modify your classpath (or settings like Project GOPATH) for each IntelliJ instance.
My answer is not directly related to the question but its a solution for some cases where we think we need 2 Intellij instances.
For my issue I was thinking to launch 2 Intellij instances. But after careful thinking and searching for other options, I found an easy and quick solution and I wanna share with the community
If you are looking to compare files between different branches, and you wanna compare the difference, that can be done with git comparison. You don't need 2 different Intellij instances.
My Case:
In my case, I wanted to copy very specific code from 1 branch to another and I wanted to compare the difference between the code. The restriction was, I can't do git merge or cherry-pick because we didn't want full commit to be part of new branch. Just few necessary lines were required in the new branch.
My Solution:
Select the branch
Open the file where you wanna insert code
Right Click -> Git -> Compare with... (refer to pic)
Select the branch and you will get the difference
Append or Copy the difference
If you have new files or directories, you can create it manually and copy-paste the content
I know this answer doesn't directly relates to what has been asked, but sometimes we miss alternative solutions.
Hope this can be helpful as an alternative solution.
In addition to the above comments from #crazycoder and #magice, Make sure that you are not trying to load Pycharm with the same project two times which happened to me!!!.
For example, in windows10 already loaded with ONLY one project in PyCharm and tried to load another Pycharm instance by clicking on the PyCharm desktop shortcut or from task-bar if added. In this case, Pycharm will not load the second instance.
I have wasted some time here. So, wanted to share with the community as it will help someone out there!!
Cheers,
I use GNUStep to compile Objective-C on Windows 7 using GCC and MinGW. I'd like to be able to automate the "make" instruction (with make files) from Notepad++ and have any complier errors reported to Notepad++s console window.
Edit:
What I am trying to do is script GNUStep/Bash to login to the right directory, build the directory, then exit. Currently I have to type in the following:
sh -login -i
$ cd d:\directory
$ make
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Rich
The npp-plugins gives you most of what you are looking for. Install the plugin and:
Press F6 to open the NppExec Execute window
Type 'make' (you may also want to cd to the proper directory first) and click OK
Output from make is shown in the notepad++ console
Another cool feature is that it will save the command if you restart notepad++, so you only need to type 'make' a single time.
You may need to make some tweaks to only show compiler errors, however.
I have done it, with considerable help from my friends.
Create a Bash script called 'nppmake'. I saved it in c:\GNUStep. The file should contain the following:
#! /bin/bash
cd $1
make
Create a DOS batch file called 'nppmake.bat', which again I saved in c:\GNUStep. This file contains the following:
sh --login -i C:\GNUstep\nppmake %1
In N++, go to 'Plugins > NppExec > Execute' and type in the following:
C:\GNUstep\nppmake.bat $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)
Hit 'Save' and call the script 'make'.
In 'Plugins > NppExec > Advanced Options...', create a menu item, which I called 'Build' and associate it to the script called 'make' (I'm a Visual Studio developer, so 'build' feels more natural to me). Make sure 'Place to the Macros submenu' is checked.
You may need to restart N++ at this point, but then all that is left to do is add the keyboard shortcut. Go to 'Settings > Shortcut Mapper > Plugin Commands' and find 'Build'. I assigned 'Ctrl-Shift-B', is it is the same as VS.
You're done. Now open up a file in a Objective-C project, that has a GNUmakefile, and hit 'Ctrl-Shift-B'. The NppExec window reports any errors, or hopefully a successful build!
Just a small correction to kim3er's answer.
cd $1 make
should be
cd $1
make