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> shifting all your relevant stuff onto the Linux side and still working with Windows tools where desirable is quite feasible. Is IntelliJ IDEA able to detect
by chx 7y ago
> shifting all your relevant stuff onto the Linux side and still working with Windows tools where desirable is quite feasible.
Is IntelliJ IDEA able to detect file changes like this? Maybe share from Linux via CIFS?
- chrismorgan 7y agoThe WSL filesystem is already exposed at \\wsl$\distro-name (that landed in the Windows build from 6 or 12 months ago, so you can try it now on a release channel WSL 1 distro). I doubt that’s enough for file watching (certainly things like file locking aren’t supported), and I don’t believe CIFS would allow that either. For watching file changes specifically, I imagine that you’d need a helper that could run on the Linux side and do any inotify or similar stuff there. I have no idea what IntelliJ might or might not support along these lines. I get the impression that VS Code is generally the tool with the best support, though again I have no concrete knowledge about file watching in particular.