Makefile plugin for pycharm

Victor Kropp, one of JetBrains employees, wrote Makefile plugin that adds a bunch of nice features, and most importantly tab support. See https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9333-makefile-support


Updated: as stated by Amir Katz: from PyCharm 2017 and onwards adding a TextMate bundle is under Settings->Editor->TextMate Bundles.

From PyCharm 2.7 and onwards another option would be to use PyCharm's TextMate bundles support: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PYH/TextMate+Bundles+in+PyCharm

You can download the TextMate Makefile bundle here: https://github.com/textmate/make.tmbundle and then install it in PyCharm.


There is now a plugin available on the official repository: intellij-makefile

native plugin

Fully supports GNU Make syntax.

Provides:

  • syntax highlighting
  • keywords & target names completion
  • run configurations
  • gutter marks & context actions to run targets
  • quick-doc for ## comments on target line
  • find usages and Go To Symbol navigation for targets
  • prerequisites resolution
  • rules, variables and conditionals folding
  • quick fixes to create new rule from unresolved prerequisite and remove empty rule

From Dealing With Makefiles in IntelliJ

After considering and accepting the security risk of installing from an untrusted source, you can import the .jar in your application.

Syntax Highlighting

It's turns out it is possible to create custom file types in IntelliJ, I've created one for Makefiles. The number highlighting is a bit funky but the rest should be good. To install it you can download this settings jar:

https://www.everythingfrontend.com/files/makefile.jar

Then just go to File > Import Settings and import that file.

Indent with Tabs

If you have a setting to detect indentation enabled, this should just work, but in case it doesn't you can install EditorConfig plugin and then add the following to your .editorconfig settings:

# Override for Makefile
[{Makefile, makefile, GNUmakefile}]
indent_style = tab
indent_size = 4


For Pycharm 2018 and Ubuntu OS,

Go to File > Settings> Plugins

Now search for Makefile support,

install it (you will need to reboot upon installation).

Tags:

Makefile

Pycharm

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