Vestal, Rick wrote:

>I'm sure you are going to get tons of 'why isn't this on there' questions.
>
Here's another one (although I haven't asked for it before):

I would like to be able to keep a completely separate (even 
write-protected) install directory for IDEA and I would like to separate 
all the per-user files into some other directory.  This would simplify 
upgrades and would also simplify using a single installation of IDEA for 
multiple users.  I know IDEA isn't that large, but I don't like having 
an application store user-related files in its own directory...

This could be done (for example) by determining which files are 
configuration-related and allowing the user to specify a directory for 
such files on the command line using a system property (-D) or an 
ordinary command line argument.  The system could default to the current 
directory so that those who don't want the separation could keep using 
IDEA just like they do now.  Then I could just hack the shell startup to 
specify -Dconfig.directory=$HOME/.idea/ or something similar.



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