Add a 'Run shell script' action from the library:.Open Automator and click on the 'new document' button.By wrapping the shell script directly, it should remain updated (since the shell script is itself a Toolbox generated wrapper that points to the latest installed version). What you can do is wrap any of this with an Automator application. The Answer on that other Question is Windows-specific.Īs a Toolbox user you still have access to the 'generated shell scripts' ( /usr/local/bin/idea, or things like /usr/local/bin/phpstorm, /usr/local/bin/pycharm, etc for individual applications).īut, these are shell scripts, and cannot be used for this because they lack the application identifiers needed by the OS for launching apps. Is there some other way or trick to getting the Finder to know to open files with IntelliJ? And preferably with the latest version, as I believe Toolbox may keep around the older versions.īasically, I am asking the same as this Question, How to make available “open this project in IntelliJ IDEA” option in Windows context menu, if IntelliJ IDEA has been installed via JetBrains Toolbox?, but for macOS instead of MS Windows. So in my 'Applications' folder on macOS, I have no 'IntelliJ' application to choose in the Mac Finder when trying to open a file. The problem for me is that I am a happy user of JetBrains Toolbox app to automatically install, upgrade, and open IntelliJ. This is called LightEdit mode.Īt this point in a JetBrains video, we see the host platform's file manager app opening a file via IntelliJ while noting that all such files should be opened using that same tool. IntelliJ IDEA 2020 can (finally!) simply open a file to be edited, without a project being involved.

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