Open external files via SDK in text editor Follow

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Created September 15, 2022 15:22

I am working over plugin for intellij idea and the plugin keeps some files in it's own directory like ~/.plugin/ . The plugin needs to open some files from the directory in text editor, but the existing solutin I found like

val project = ProjectManager.getInstance().openProjects[0]
val textEditor: Editor? = FileEditorManager.getInstance(project).openTextEditor(
    OpenFileDescriptor(project, node.file, 0),
    true
)

doesn't work. Probably because virtual files out of project. So my question is what the propery way to open such kind of external files?

2 comments

Karol Lewandowski

Created September 16, 2022 06:49

Hi,

It should work correctly even for files not being part of the project.

There are two potential issues:

The way of getting the project looks suspicious. See https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/project.html#how-to-get-a-project-instance for other ways and choose the one matching your context
"node.file" - I don't see what it is, so maybe this is a problem, You can get local file system file with:
```
LocalFileSystem.getInstance().findFileByNioFile(Path.of("~/.plugin/my-file.txt"))
```

Devpriporov

Created September 16, 2022 07:10

thank you, the cause was that files were without extension, when I added .txt it correctly works

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