I am using vim-elixir for syntax highlighting in vim, but it does not support liveview code very well. Does anybody know a vim syntax highlighting plugin that supports liveviews?

Do you mean (l)eex templates? Or the actual LiveView modules - which should just be the same as normal old elixir, right?

[image] mickel8: Take a look at vim-polyglot. It might support it That only supports the vim-elixir plugin that I am already using, I do not see anything else Phoenix/Elixir related there.

[image] soup: Do you mean (l)eex templates? Or the actual LiveView modules - which should just be the same as normal old elixir, right? I am seeing mainly issues inside <%= %> tags. On https://github.com/elixir-editors/vim-elixir it is stated that it does not support Live views yet. I unde…

I have vim-elixir and it works fine. And have for some time. Both in ~L sigil and using a template file. Make sure to clean out your old files vim plug installations and re-install them. I think that for me, an update didnt just work.

Good to know it should be working! I did not have any old plug installations at all. Recently moved to a new system (Ubuntu on WSL), and I had not even a .vim directory. So it was a first and fresh installment of vim-elixir. Just to note: there is syntax coloring inside the rendering stuff, it jus…

I don’t personally enable any syntax highlighting, so not sure how that performs. I did have trouble with indentation sometimes. I use Temple to write my templates though, which are “just elixir”, so the normal tooling works really well there.

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Vim syntax highlighting for liveview code

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mickel8 March 24, 2021, 7:51am 2

Take a look at vim-polyglot. It might support it