title: Getting started writing IntelliJ Plugins
body: <p>I wish to write a plugin similar to the built-in documentation pane, where you can see the results for a nullege search of the object or method you have selected (same behaviour as the documentation pane) as this would make it far easier to see where you're going wrong when starting out with a new library or framework.</p>
  
  <p>I can see on <a href="http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Writing+Plug-ins" rel="nofollow">the confluence page</a> how to create a plugin project, and have tried looking at the examples on <a href="https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins" rel="nofollow">jetbrains' github</a>, but I have struggled to see what needs to go where in order to make it work. I've had a google about but there dont seem to be any easily searched resources on this topic - if anyone has done plugin development for the intelliJ platform and can give me some pointers, they'd be much appreciated.</p>