intellij-diff-plugin

Syntax highlighting for .diff and .patch files in IntelliJ IDEA and other JetBrains IDEs.

Download

• Download from plugins.jetbrains.com
• Download from github
• or simply use IntelliJ's plugin manager and search for Diff / Patch File Support

Development

This project was built using Java 11 and Gradle 6.7.1.

In order to open this project in IntelliJ IDEA, follow these steps:

1. Install Java 11 JDK
2. Define a project SDK named 11. If you have a Java 11 SDK already, you may choose to rename or clone it.
3. Open the project and wait for IntelliJ to download the required libraries.
   (This may take a long time, because several hundred MBs are downloaded.)

Now, there are two run configurations, Run in IDE and Build Plugin.

• Run in IDE allows you to launch an IntelliJ Community Edition with the plugin enabled.
  The IDE version is configured in build.gradle. Required files will be automatically downloaded.
  You can find version numbers here: stable | snapshots. See section com.jetbrains.intellij.idea. You can use Version or Build Number.
• Build Plugin will generate build/distributions/intellij-diff-plugin-*.zip, which you can install in your JetBrains IDE.

To find out more about plugin development, please refer to the excellent official documentation: http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/

Troubleshooting

If you develop under Windows, and see the warning

WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs
at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

then simply run the file fix-jdk-warning-in-windows.reg, and confirm the dialogs.