suggestion: make IDEA an general editor (right click on file: "send to IDEA")
One reason people like TextMate so much is they can browse to any file from Finder/Explorer (shell script, properties file, xml file, yml file, etc) and right click and hit "Send to TextMate" and they can quickly look at/edit that file.
Or from command line type "mate blah.xml" and the file pops up.
In IntelliJ/RubyMine you have to create a project, add in the file, etc. Terrible for a quick look at a file. Terrible for a one/two time usage.
I know the product isn't designed as a general purpose text editor, but the IDEA editor is phenomenal. Seems a shame not to leverage it for general purpose.
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Would help with a lot of common scenarios for me--often find myself looking at sample code I've downloaded, which doesn't belong in the project. Navigating through the file system through Open File... can end up being fairly tedious.
Totally agree. +1
It's very common to me read sample codes in the editor but I can't do it in IDEA.
Regards,
Felipe Cypriano
I've got a shortcut in my SendTo folder to a BAT file with the following contents which does exactly that:
java -classpath "C:%HOMEPATH%\.IntelliJIdea\config\plugins\systemTools\lib\systemTools.jar" org.intellij.systemTools.fileLoader.Main %*
From what I remember when I set up it what seems like a million years ago, there was a plug in involved.