Recently, when using a plugin of idea, it reports the NPE on the latest version and fail to work. Because the original author haven’t update the repo for a relative long time, we decide to fix this by ourselves. Setup In order to develop idea plugin, we first have to setup some environment. Here is the environment setting tutorial and following are some basic steps: Start IntelliJ IDEA. Configure the IntelliJ Platform Plugin SDK. (prefer to choose community version as SDK because we can have source code of community version to assist debug) Create a project for plugin development. Create the necessary source elements and write the source code. Run and debug your plugin. Prepare the plugin for publishing. We come across some problems at step three because we are developing a plugin on the fork of other people’s repository and there is no option to choose plugin development project type when create project from existing source. So, on step three, we have to first create...
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