How to open a terminal via intellij in the selected folder

Question

I want to right click on a file in intellij and open the terminal there in mac. I tried 'External Tools' but doesn't open the terminal in the selected directory even though I set $FileDir$ as the working directory of that tool

Answer 1

1. Out-of-the-box (no plugins)

Drag and drop a selected folder into the IntelliJ built-in Teminal opens a new terminal session in the built-in Terminal. (As @MariuszWróbel has written.)

2. With plugins:

There are 2 plugins (as far as I know):

• Open Terminal Here
• Open In Terminal

Both the plugins open an external terminal (outside of IntelliJ). Each of them adds some item(s) to the context menu of files and folders:

2a. Open Terminal Here plugin

It opens terminal in the current folder. The plugin works out of the box, no additional settings are required.

2b. Open In Terminal plugin

It does the same as the previous plus offers opening the terminal in the root folder of the module. The plugin does not work out of the box, you need to configure it as described here.

Linux:

Terminal command: gnome-terminal
Options: --working-directory

Windows:

Terminal command: cmd /C start cmd.exe /K
Options: cd /D

Windows (with babun or cygwin):

Terminal command: C:<USER-DIRECTORY>.babun\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe
Options: -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico C:<USER-DIRECTORY>.babun\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l -c "cd \"$0\" ; exec bash"

Mac OS:

Terminal command: open -a Terminal