Does not highlight syntax, nor recognise .tex format

[thekalinga]

Type of JetBrains IDE (IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc.) and version

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2.1 (Community Edition) installed using Snap Store

Operating System

Ubuntu 16.04

TeXiFy IDEA version

0.7

What I did (steps to reproduce)

I created a project using New -> Project -> Latex, the opened the file, I see the syntax is not highlighted & no suggestions are shown

Expected behavior

It should highlight & show suggestions for control sequences

Actual behavior

Nothing gets highlighted

[thekalinga]

Strangely, the highlighting & suggestions work for other types (.bib, .sty, .tikz, .cls) but not for .tex

[thekalinga]

In my settings, I see that *.tex was associated under Text (File | Settings | Editor | File Types)

I now removed that from there & then associated with Latex Source by adding *.tex under File Name Patterns section manually.

Now the plugin recognises & processes the file. I have no idea why that happened. Did I manually mess it up before, no idea.

Closing this issue as no one else has reported this issue

[thekalinga]

I believe it is possible that others also might face this issue.

I believe this might have happened. Initially when I opened a .tex file in IDEA (before I installed this plugin), I might have asked IDEA to use to use plain Text editor for showing the file. Now, after installing this plugin, those associations have not been reset, leading to this strange case. This is my hypothesis.

Not sure why this plugin dint reset file extension association.

[PHPirates]

There should be no reason to assign .tex files to the Text filetype if you don't have the plugin installed: IntelliJ will suggest 'Plugins supported .tex files found` instead when you open the file - at least that is what happens for me.

Did you verify that you cannot open .tex files if you don't assign it to the Text filetype?