Configure Less with PhpStorm doesn't compile - less

I am trying to compile my styles.less to styles.css. My folder structure is following:
assets->less->styles.less
assets->css->styles.css
I believe my configurations are wrong. In PhpStorm I set less output path to refresh: ../css/$FileNameWithoutExtension$.css
I do have a styles.css file under the less file and it is compiling.
So far I only know regular CSS so I'm not very familiar with Less yet.
Any help?

Your File Watcher setup is incomplete.
Right now it will save the generated file next to the source... but you need it 2 folders up.
You did set up correctly in Output paths to refresh .. but that file tells IDE what file to check when file watcher is finished running. It is not where the generated file will be placed.
You need to alter your Arguments field.
Currently you have ... $FileName$ $FileNameWithoutExtension$.css ...
You need to adjust the path there -- it has to be ... $FileName$ ../../css/$FileNameWithoutExtension$.css ... -- because that's where you specify such path.
(leading and trailing "..." means other parameters that you have got there)

You should have changed the Arguments field accordingly;
Like:
Arguments: --no-color $FileName$ $ProjectFileDir$/themes/elisa/assets/css/$FileDirPathFromParent(less)$$FileNameWithoutExtension$.css
Output paths to refresh: $ProjectFileDir$/themes/elisa/assets/css/$FileDirPathFromParent(less)$$FileNameWithoutExtension$.css

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IntelliJ - File watchers: wrong output of macros

I am trying to setup a file watcher for scss files which is working on files with a filename not starting with _.
But if I have a file named _file_name.scss the output of any macros that include the filename will be file.name.scss.
The first _ is removed and following ones are replaced by ..
Even though in the insert macros selection tool I can see that the output when you select a macro is correct.
Like $FilePathRelativeToProjectRoot$ will display mypath/_file_name.scss in the selection tool but then my command from this file watcher will output mypath/file.name.scss.
Am I missing a parameter here ?
Full configuration:
For me, existing file names are not changed when using similar file watcher. But files with names starting the _ are not prettified, the main .scss that includes them is processed instead.
To avoid this, try adding COMPILE_PARTIAL=true variable to your file watcher settings:
Also, make sure that Track only root files is off.
See the comments in https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-13459

Show `.map` files under their respectives files in WebStorm/IntelliJ

Using Filewatchers it's possible to show a generated file under it's respective source file:
The problem I am having is that only the generated .jsfile is 'watched' and grouped whilst the .map file still shows up separately. Is there a way to set it up so that both files are shown under their respective source file?
You need to modify your file watcher settings accordingly. Please make sure to set 'Output paths to refresh' to '$FileNameWithoutExtension$.js:$FileNameWithoutExtension$.map'

load script from other file extension?

is it possible to load module from file with extension other than .lua?
require("grid.txt") results in:
module 'grid.txt' not found:
no field package.preload['grid.txt']
no file './grid/txt.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/grid/txt.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/grid/txt/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/grid/txt.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/grid/txt/init.lua'
no file './grid/txt.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/grid/txt.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
no file './grid.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/grid.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
I suspect that it's somehow possible to load the script into package.preaload['grid.txt'] (whatever that is) before calling require?
It depends on what you mean by load.
If you want to execute the code in a file named grid.txt in the current directory, then just do dofile"grid.txt". If grid.txt is in a different directory, give a path to it.
If you want to use the path search that require performs, then add a template for .txt in package.path, with the correct path and then do require"grid". Note the absence of suffix: require loads modules identified by names, not by paths.
If you want require("grid.txt") to work should someone try that then yes, you'll need to manually loadfile and run the script and put whatever it returns (or whatever require is documented to return when the module doesn't return anything) into package.loaded["grid.txt"].
Alternatively, you could write your own loader just for entries like this which you set into package.preload["grid.txt"] which finds and loads/runs the file or, more generically, you could write yourself a loader function, insert it into package.loaders, and then let it do its job whenever it sees a "*.txt" module come its way.

Cmake script problems find_path

I have put these two lines in my Findglm.cmake file to point to the headers for this header library.
find_path(glm_INCLUDE_DIR NAMES glm.hpp matrix_transform.hpp type_ptr.hpp PATHS
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/glm-0.9.3.2/glm ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/glm-0.9.3.2/glm/gtc
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/glm-0.9.3.2/glm/gtx ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/glm-0.9.3.2glm/core)
set(glm_INCLUDE_DIRS ${glm_INCLUDE_DIR})
However when I generate my Xcode project it says that it cannot locate matrix_transform.hpp and type_ptr.hpp
I have played around with this some more it appears to only find the first argument I am wondering if I am using find path wrong ?
I am using cmake 2.8.8 darwinports.
The find_path() command returns single directory. In your case, it's the first dir, which contains the first file.
If this glm will be always located in your source dir, it would be sufficient to do
include_directories(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/glm-0.9.3.2/glm
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/glm-0.9.3.2/glm/gtc
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/glm-0.9.3.2/glm/gtx
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/glm-0.9.3.2/glm/core)
The find_path() is used to determine dir somewhere outside of your project.

msbuild -p:outputdir=c:\mydir being ignored

I'm running msbuild from the command line with the following:
msbuild mysolution.sln -p:outputdir=c:\mydir
When I run this, the outputdir is being ignored and the default specified in the csproj file is being used.
The MSDN doc for this tool says that I should be able to override the build directory using this parameter. What am I doing wrong?
You should use OutputPath and more important you should use the right syntax :
msbuild mysolution.sln /p:OutputPath=c:\mydir
Note that OutputPath is preferred over OutDir. The documentation used to be wrong about this, but I see that they've finally fixed it.
Beyond that, it's difficult to say exactly what the problem is, since you didn't show the exact path that you're passing as a parameter. There are two possible problems that I can imagine:
The OutputPath option specifies the path to the output directory relative to the project directory. That means you can't set it to a global path like C:\mydir. I assume it is unable to find the path you specified, and so it defaults to the one specified in your project file.
If the path that you're actually specifying as a parameter contains spaces, the command is likely to fail. I believe you need to wrap the path in quotes and append an extra backslash to the end of the path string.
I believe you should be using OutputPath.