IntelliJ Idea: can't create new project from cli if Idea is started
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I'm opening a maven project (new for idea) from the cli, using following command:
$ idea pom.xml
That works perfect when there's no starting instances of IntelliJ Idea -> Idea starts up and generates a new project,
If Idea is started up, it would not react on the command -> no new project would be generated.
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What IDE version and OS do you use?
Works fine for me with 2018.1.5: with already started IDE I execute idea <path/to/pom.xml> and get prompted with the dialog:
Andrey, thanks for checking.
My env: Idea 2018.1.5 Ultimate edition, Mac OS X High Sierra version 10.13.4.
I don't have the prompt message that you've attached at all :(
I checked more carefully and it turns out that the launcher ( /usr/local/bin/idea ) was referencing to wrong config folders. E.g.
CONFIG_PATH = u'/Users/e3cmea/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea2017.3'
SYSTEM_PATH = u'/Users/e3cmea/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea2017.3'
In /Users/e3cmea/Library/Preferences there are two folders: IntelliJIdea2017.3 and IntelliJIdea2018.1
Re-creating the command-line launcher from Idea fixes the issue.
Thanks for the help anyway!