How can I tell IntelliJ (or its Markdown or Multimarkdown plug-in) that files named *.apib are Markdown, and should be handled the same way as files named *.md?
I found the Preferences for the plugins (Preferences: Other Settings: Markdown/MultiMarkdown), but these only control what it means to "be handled the same way," not how to get there in the first place.
I also found Preferences: Plugins, but it only seems to handle installing the plugins, not configuring them.
Open Preferences and choose Editor. Select File Types and select Markdown Language, then add *.apib to the list of patterns.
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I have a Scala app built with Lift framework. It has a few .conf files. When I open those .conf files in my IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Fancy Pants Edition, I do not see any buttons to fold those curly braces in those files. Hotkeys do not do it either. Browsed for plugins, none applicable found. Is there any solution to enable code folding in .conf files?
Update:
Here is an illustration of what would be lovely. Those "-" and "+" icons do not appear in .conf files:
The relevant plugin is the HOCON plugin.
To install, click the Get button from the above JetBrains Marketplace link. Or, from within IntelliJ, go to Settings/Preferences (Ctrl+Alt+S for Windows; ⌘+Comma for Mac) and select Plugins, then click Marketplace to search for the plugin and install it. Restart IntelliJ to enable it.
To confirm, go back to Settings/Preferences and select Editor > File Types. You should now see HOCON (Human-Optimized Config Object Notation) file types among those listed as "Recognized File Types". Click HOCON and you should see *.conf under "File name patterns".
All your .conf files should now appear in IntelliJ with syntax highlighting and code folding.
Edited Oct 2020 to remove Scala plugin reference, as it no longer seems to support HOCON files.
Those .conf files are of HOCON type ("Human-Optimized Config Object Notation"). To enable folding them, you have to force the editor treat them as such. In IntelliJ settings, configure it as illustrated:
Preferences->Editor->File Types, and there add filename patterns to HOCON filetype.
2020+
The best option is to install HOCON plugin separately. For now, HOCON file type is not bundled with Scala plugin anymore.
P.S. All credits to ghik's comment. Decided to put this into separate answer because I was not able to find the tip at first time.
I assumed that if I have my VCS set up with Git and listed files within the "ignored files" settings, then IntelliJ Idea is automatically creating a .gitignore file. This doesn't appear to be the case.
My project has a .gitignore file and it does not match the settings within "Ignored Files". I suspect this is a failure on my part to understand what this IntelliJ setting is.
So Ignored Files has nothing to do with my gitignore file?
Right: The "Ignore" feature of IDEA is separate from the specific version control ignore feature.
The IDEA help at https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.2/configuring-ignored-files.html says
If the version control system that you are using has its own ignore facilities, use the corresponding native command provided by the version control integration.
Unfortunately the git plugin currently does not have specific commands to deal with .gitignore files.
There is a plugin that deals with that (though I never tried it myself):
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7495
Interestingly, I have not found a feature request at IDEA's bug tracker (https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/). You may try to create a request there.
I want to get rid of the annoying popup window when opening the same project in both webstorm and intellij. This window constains
Project components were changed externally and cannot be reloaded:
RunManager
editorHistoryManager
ToolWindowManager
ProjectRootManager
ChangeListManager
FileEditorManager
Would you like to reload project?
Is there a way to do that?
Thank you.
The problem is that WebStorm and Idea use the same project format (https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/help/project.html#d1374457e109), but have different module types, settings, etc. So, it's strongly recommended to avoid sharing the project settings (.idea) between WebStorm and Idea.
If you like to proceed with working on your project in both IDEs, I can suggest creating a separate project to be used in WebStorm: create a new empty WebStorm project anywhere and then add a folder where your javascript, HTML, etc. files are stored as an additional content root to it using Settings/Project/Directories, Add content root.
I have been using IntelliJ sparingly for the last six months and one thing always puzzles/annoys me.
Each module of IntelliJ has a .iml folder in it's root. This .iml file is clearly recognized by IntelliJ it the file extension is associated with it during install.
Clicking on this .iml file I would expect the module to open up in IntellJ in the most recent project space. However, IntelleJ does not seem to want to do this, it has a popup saying the following.
Cannot open file:
No project to open file in.
So why can't intelliJ just open the module in the most recently used project space. Instead I have to go to great lengths to open a project space and then import the project which is so unproductive. Often I have to look open and inspect several projects an hour and as is, the process is onerous.
Am I missing something, or is there really no way to open projects directly from the desktop/file explorer?
Click the file which has .ipr extension to open it in intellij, and you can see it in the most recent project space after it is opened.
The *.iml file describes modules. It includes module paths, dependencies, order settings, etc. A project may contain multiple *.iml files.
The *.ipr file stores settings related to a project in general, for example, paths to modules and module libraries, compiler and configurations, entry points, etc.
You can find more detail in IntelliJ IDEA Web Help
I've recently been learning the Processing programming language. Processing includes an IDE called the Processing Development Environment (PDE), but the editor is quite basic.
The IDE has an option to use an external editor. One of my preferred editors is jEdit due to it's cross-platform support. Jedit has built-in support for over 170 languages, but not processing which I guess is still a little bit too niche at the moment.
How do I add Processing with all the color highlights to jEdit?
The whole process for adding processing has been detailed here: http://wiki.processing.org/w/JEdit_as_External_IDE.
Basically, jEdit is using XML files to define syntax coloring rules (incl. simple checking) for its various editing modes. Each syntax definition file has a file extension mapping to tell jEdit which language mode to use for individual files. For Processing files we will use the standard .pde extension.
There are two things you need to do: (Before installing any of the files below, please make sure jEdit is not running.)
Syntax Highlighting
Download File:Processing.xml into the "modes" folder inside your jEdit installation.
On Linux/MAC this is usually /usr/share/jedit/modes
On Windows this is C:\Program Files\jEdit\modes
Then copy and paste the following XML node into the file "catalog" inside the same folder and syntax coloring/checking for PDE files should be ready: <MODE NAME="processing" FILE="Processing.xml" FILE_NAME_GLOB="*.pde" />
Abbreviations
Download Media:abbrevs_v0.1.zip and extract it into the right folder for your system:
Windows
C:\Documents and Settings\{USERNAME}\.jedit
Mac
/Users/{USERNAME}/.jedit
Note: This folder is not visible in the Finder. Unzip the file in your home folder, open a terminal window and type: mv ~/abbrevs ~/.jedit/abbrevs</source>
Linux
Find the location of the jEdit settings directory via the menu: Utilities > Troubleshooting > Activity log, then extract/copy the file in that folder.
For all systems, you'll need to restart jEdit in order for the abbreviations to come in effect.