$200 for an hour of your time
Hi! My name is Taylor Hayward and I'm looking to ask a IntelliJ developer on the phone some questions around what's possible in creating an IntelliJ plugin. In compensation for spending an hour on the phone with me I will pay you $200 in the form of an Amazon or Startbucks gift card I will immediately transmit to you over email once we're done talking. To get in touch with me, you can contact me at thayward@veracode.com or at (617) 697-2201 .
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In case no one answered your request, there is still the possibility to just ask here. There are a lot of people who worked many years with plugins and can help you. And since your question is about "what's possible in creating an IntelliJ plugin", I'm sure your questions won't be so in depth that the community couldn't answer them. Just give it a shot.
Actually, I would venture to say that what is possible is only limited by your imagination, perseverance and desire to implement enough code to make it work, not by the API.
The IDE is extensible to such a degree that most aspects can be extended or modified, those that cannot be extended can be hacked or overridden for desired effect, and those that cannot be hacked it is possible to add an extension mechanism and ask the support team to add it by providing a patch.
If your extension makes sense then it has a good chance of being incorporated (as is or in modified form) into the API.
It does take some time and effort to wrap your mind around the philosophy of the API/implementation but once you have that done it is much easier to figure out where and how to hook into the API to get the desired effect. After that it may take some elbow grease to fine tune the implementation for all possible modalities of the IDE.
I agree that you should post your questions here and they have a good chance of being answered by someone from the JetBrains dev team or a plugin developer who has solved the problem for his/her plugin.