Hi all, I’m new here and I’d like to apologise if this question isn’t exactly original, however, I haven’t found a satisfactory answer to my questions, so I’m posting this here anyway. I’m getting started with Elixir and I haven’t quite figured out what IDE to use with it. I’d like to understand wh…

I noticed you were using the Homebrew installed packages in the screenshot, so I tried on my daughter’s iMac which had nothing installed previously and is running Catalina. Did a fresh install of Homebrew, Erlang and Elixir and the latest version of RM. I had zero issues. Did you happen to ever s…

Just to throw another Vim experience in the mix (hee hee): I use vim + ALE + Elixir-LS. Recently I have had issues with that causing massive CPU usage (maxing out one core). I tried disabling Dialyzer in the Elixir-LS config but this did not help. Using credo as the linter seems to have resolved thi…

Are you using that at all times now for Elixir development? That is what I’m betting on eventually, but seems a few months away from being fully usable. I’m coming from neovim+alchemist and at least one thing it’s missing is the ability to kick off a unit test under cursor last I checked.

Thanks for sharing! nice pun, I bet it gets thrown around a lot here :slight_smile:

Thanks for testing this out! I did manage to get it working too. First I reset the IDE to factory settings and then I noticed another step that I may have missed earlier: Under Preferences → Languages & Frameworks → Elixir → SDKs, I managed to finally set an SDK (which was previously missing, so the…

You may need to close the project and reopen it. I’ve seen that sometimes where the language pack seems to get initialized only on project load. So if you changed the SDK and didn’t restart it, it hasn’t really fully loaded. Usually, it ‘just works’ for me though. When I do ^T, this is what I se…

Hm, restarting doesn’t seem to help. Just to clarify though, I can refactor a file name, but if, let’s say, I want to refactor a variable or a method, then I get the “Move/copy file” dialogue window.

Ah yeah. It probably won’t do that, at least in a small IDE, because it isn’t the native language. Edit: Looking at the plugin’s doc’s, it only renames module attributes and params, but not methods. For that, you’d have to do a replace-all. Also - there’s a vscode extension to bring in the Intell…

VS Code + ElixirLS + @spec, @spec, @spec ,@spec…and @spec :slight_smile: and then @type, @type … :slight_smile: then when you need to refactor, just change the function you need to schange or type spec. Then wait for dialiser to report problems in “problems” tab. Warrning, in many cases it will ju…

I’m updating this thread to ask if there are any updates about another IDE than VS Code which works good with elixir. I don’t mean code syntax only, but also some higher function like “go to function”, highlighting compile/dialyzer/credo warnings or something like that.

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IVR December 11, 2020, 10:45am 17

Oh, that’s very useful indeed, thanks for sharing!