title: How does one go about creating custom IntelliJ project templates?
body: <p>I wish to have a custom project template in IntelliJ IDEA (Community edition 12.0)</p>
  
  <p>What I need, is for the project, when created, to copy in some standard files and then insert some values into those files.</p>
  
  <p>I can probably do this myself using a bit of bash magic, but it would be very nice and tidy to just pick the template when creating a new project and get it all done in one go..</p>
  
  <p>MSVS has very good support for custom projects, and I was kind of hoping IntelliJ had some of the same, though I have not been able to find it.</p>
  
  <p>The only thing I found was the plugin facility, but I couldn't get started with that - IntelliJ just tells me the package com.intellij.openapi.components doesn't exist when I add an application component to the plugin project.</p>
  
  <p>Cheers!</p>