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intellij-fsnotifier-20230112

replacement for IntelliJ's fsNotifier

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Description

The fsNotifier is used by IntelliJ for detecting file changes. This version supports FreeBSD and OpenBSD via libinotify and is a replacement for the bundled Linux-only version coming with the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition.

Package information

Ports path
devel/intellij-fsnotifier
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
None listed

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| Running intellij-fsnotifier on OpenBSD
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This is an optional filesystem notifier replacement for JetBrains IDEs
like IntelliJ IDEA or PyCharm. Enable it by adding the following line to
~/.config/JetBrains/<product><version>/idea.properties:

    idea.filewatcher.executable.path=${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/fsnotifier

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