Writing IntelliJ Scala Plugin Plugins?

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Given that Scala support is itself a plugin in intellij, is there any way of writing intellij plugins leveraging the existing Scala functionality?

Things like support for parsing Scala, getting an AST, traversing the class/trait hierarchy, etc. should already be a part of the scala plugin, and I was wondering if I could make use of all these niceties from the get-go without having to redo it all myself.

The plugin is opensource. Just find them on GitHub or wherever they host. I don't think that Scala plugin itself has a plugin support, but you can definitely extend it — Nikita Volkov
– Nikita Volkov, Commented Jul 8, 2012 at 10:11
I know they're open source; I was wondering if, in a moment of inspiration, I had some brilliant new feature I wanted to add that needed Scala language support, I had any option other than forking the plugin. Forking things is always pretty extreme and brings a huge pile of downsides I'd rather avoid if at all possible. — Li Haoyi
– Li Haoyi, Commented Jul 10, 2012 at 5:33

OlegYch · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-22 15:57:07Z

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It's possible since Intellij plugins can depend on each other

See e.g. http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?idea&pluginId=7080 and http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?idea&pluginId=5007

answered Jul 22, 2012 at 15:57

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