have IntelliJ IDEA refresh the project and detect changed files

Question

I\'m using Eclipse for development because of all the things IntelliJ can\'t do (e.g. highlight all instances of a variable) and because IntelliJ is dog slow over a remote c

Answer 1

I know this question was posted a few years ago, but maybe this info will help someone in the future. I was actually looking into a similar issue, and doing the following worked for me:

Go to Settings > Build, Execution, Deployment > Compiler and make sure "Make project automatically" is checked.