Is there a way to open files (from Windows) that are not part of a project?

Hello Vagif,

If I try to "open with Intellij" a PHP file I get the error message:

Cannot open project 'd/wamp/www/index.php'

I'd be really nice to use this is a general editor for files? Is this
posible?

This is supported in IDEA 8.

--
Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
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"Develop with Pleasure!"

Hello Vagif,

I use the Native Neighbourhood plugin that allows one to drag & drop files
onto IDEA's frame (from a file explorer) and have them opened. Requires IDEA
to be already running, but it's handy enough, nonetheless.

http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=38

HTH,
Andrei

VK> If I try to "open with Intellij" a PHP file I get the error message:
VK>
VK> Cannot open project 'd/wamp/www/index.php'
VK>
VK> I'd be really nice to use this is a general editor for files? Is
VK> this posible?
VK>

Alternatively, there is

• the DragNDrop plugin

• the OpenInIDEA plugin <shamelessPlug>written by myself</shamelessPlug>

Regards,
Jens

Blah, I hate having choice. Now i have to test which I like most lol. Thanks!

Hey, Jens,

Plug away! I love OpenInIdea and use it a lot. I have a little cover script that I use from the shell:

&2
        exit 1
    fi

    for arg; do
        if [ -f "$arg" ]; then
            targets=( "${targets[@]}" "$arg" )
        else
            if [ -f "$arg.java" ]; then
                targets=( "${targets[@]}" "$arg.java" )
            else
                echo "oii: File \"$arg\" does not exist" >&2
                let nErrors++
            fi
        fi
    done

    if [ $nErrors -gt 0 ]; then
        exit 2
    fi

    for target in "${targets[@]}"; do
        j6 -cp "$OII_JAR" "$OII_Main" "$target" 2>/dev/null

        eStat=$?

        if [ $eStat -ne 0 ]; then
            echo "oii: OpenInIDEA exited with status $eStat for file \"$target\"" >&2
        fi
    done
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(j6 runs Java SE release 1.6, since I have multiple versions installed.)


Randall Schulz

Hey, Jens,

Plug away! I love OpenInIdea and use it a lot. I have a little cover script that I use from the shell:

... (bash script) ...

Hello Randall,

thanks very much; I'm glad you like the plugin.

Unfortunately I have no machine to test your script on because our workstations here run on windows (and I think I would get myself into deep trouble if I tried to install IDEA on our server machines), but at first glance I think it looks good. Would you have any objections against me putting on the Wiki pages of the plugin's googlecode pages?

Regards,
Jens

P.S.: I'm quite anxious to see the built-in IDEA functionality that Dmitry wrote about. Hopefully I will be able to bury my plugin then (even though I believe I will keep the file associations' icon mappings - it's really nice to have IDEA's look all over the computer - see attached image)

Hi, Jens,

Two (and a half) things:

1) Life as a programmer on Windows is impossible without Cygwin: http://cygwin.org
1a) With very tiny modifications (path names, basically), my script will run under Cygwin.

2) You may pass the script on. Please make a tiny note who supplied it.


Randall Schulz