Using PhpStorm as default system editor / open single file

Hello David,

it started "scanning files" and I guess it was trying to index every file within my home directory (mp3s, movies, uni assignments, other unrelated php scripts, ?)

Surely it skips indexing the files of unrelated/binary types, so was looking for another PHP files in the folder.

Maybe it should say "Open File and Create Project"

http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/WI-3220

Is it currently possible to open a file in PhpStorm (just a single file) without it creating a new project?

Nope. :(
IDEA platform that PhpStorm is based on does not support working without a project.

Is there another feature request I can vote for / existing forum thread that covers this issue?

http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/WI-1398
http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/WI-1947
my last comment at http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5271223#5271223
http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5268753#5268753
http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5269067#5269067

    Or is there a hacky work around like scripting phpstorm to launch an existing empty project and then fireing off the "open file" option?

Nothing we're aware of.

Regards,
  Kirill

it started "scanning files" and I guess it was trying to index every file within my home directory (mp3s, movies, uni assignments, other unrelated php scripts, ?)

Surely it skips indexing the files of unrelated/binary types, so was looking for another PHP files in the folder.

Or is there a hacky work around like scripting phpstorm to launch an existing empty project and then fireing off the "open file" option?

If you open file not from project - you will have only code highlighting and all, see http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/WI-3069. That's why this hack doesn't have any sense.

Hello David,

it took forever and I had to killall -9 java

If IDE ever becomes unresponsive again, please take a thread dump using JDK tool: "jstack -l <pid>", or adaptj GUI alternative.

Kirill

If you open file not from project - you will have only code highlighting and all, see http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/WI-3069.

That's quite ok with me, as I don't have those features in my current default system editor (gedit).

eg: Opening a HTML or Plain Text file to quickly adjust a typo, may not need the project-specific features of PhpStorm.

Isn't better use some small non-java file editor with code highlighting (like notepad++) for quick changes? Any non-java small text editor loads much quickly than PhpStorm.

Yer haven't found a good one for gnome. gedit isn't too bad but it's not very smart.

edit: scribes seems alright - i'll see how that treats me over the next week.