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Double-clicking a file no editor understands (`.xlsx`, `.pdf`, ...) opened the read-only hex view, because the hex provider claims every binary file. Settings > Editor > File Types gains "Files opened in associated applications" (Office documents and PDFs by default); matching files open with their system application through a new `fs_open_with_system` command, which requires a trusted local project window and a file inside the project or one of its content roots. Remote windows and failed launches fall back to the existing viewers. External open handlers are a new workbench extension point asked before the file editor providers. Co-authored-by: panda-student <71381346+panda-student@users.noreply.github.com>
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OpenIDEA brings the IntelliJ IDEA way of working — its keymap, its tool windows, its search-everything habits — to a native app with a Rust core.
Editor, code insight, debugger, Git, terminal, database and HTTP clients, for 60+ languages. Builds for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Benchmark
Opening freqtrade (Python, ~770 files) with warm caches, median of 5 runs:
| OpenIDEA | IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Window with the project | 0.9 s | 3.1 s |
| Ready (CPU settled) | 1.1 s | 13.2 s |
| Memory (USS, all processes) | 169 MB | 2011 MB |
| CPU time until ready | 2.4 s | 47.9 s |
| Idle CPU | 4 % of a core | 7 % of a core |
| Quit | 0.3 s | 5.9 s |
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Windows 11, 32-core AMD, 62 GB RAM.
IDEA analyses Python more deeply, so "ready" doesn't mean the same work on
both sides. Both are measured from the outside, the same way: see
perf/compare to run it on your machine and projects.
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