My friend's IDE is different than my IDE

Hey,

My friend and I using WebStorm IDE. But his IDE is very different than my IDE, he has less feature than my IDE.

For example:

His "file" menu:

My "file" menu:

Why is this happens? How can we fix this?

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Hi there,

That is Light Edit mode (new in 2020.1 version). It is used when using "Open file in WebStorm" kind of functionality from your file manager or when opening file/folder from command line.

Check more here: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/04/lightedit-mode/

Solution: launch IDE in "full mode" and work with projects.

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