Any documentation on a built-in IDEA script of some kind?
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I'm looking for some kind of built-in language that I can use to program various functions within IDEA.
I can't find any documentation on such a thing, and macros aren't enough because I can't find any way of getting key information, such as the length of the currently selected item, etc.
Also: External Tools aren't enough, because as near as I can tell, there still isn't a way to run one and have the output of it be entered into my source file automatically, similar to how VIM and emacs can do. It goes to a console window, and that defeats the purpose.
THANKS ahead of time!
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See https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/plugin-development-guidelines.html .
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/3674-script-monkey may be also worth checking, but it was not updated for some time.
There is also https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7282-liveplugin if you'd like to code in Groovy.
Ok thanks! But about the external tools:
I assume then that there still is no way to run an external tool and have its output stream entered automatically into the source?
In vim you can accomplish this with the !! on multiple (or current only) line(s), and it sends the lines to the program of your choosing. I then create my own script and access it this way. Emacs has similar abilities, though I believe it's done with its internal Lisp scripting.
No, you can't do it with the external tools.