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by skissane 1189 days ago
> And yes, you could always put arbitrary commands in your `configure` script or your `makefile`. But those commands shouldn't be run when all you did is open the file in vi(m)/emacs.

IIRC, if I open a Gradle project in IntelliJ IDEA, it executes the Gradle build script, including any arbitrary code therein. I think many other IDEs work similarly.