Download and use maven plugin sources
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Hello, I want to download and use the sources of a maven plugin.
I am doing the steps described here:
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.3/downloading-libraries-from-maven-repositories.html
Then I open the plugin sources as a new project.
This works ok but I would very much like to have something better. Something that would automatically download the sources and link them into view, starting from the plugin pom file that you can reach by ctrl+click.
Is there something like that? Or at least something better than what I am doing currrently
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There doesn't seem to be a better way to work on the sources of some maven plug-in you are using right now since editing the sources would require a separate module or a project for this code, otherwise the sources would be read-only.
Feature request is welcome at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA with the detailed use case. Thank you.