pinksynth
Hey everybody. I was wondering if anybody here has used Panic’s Nova editor.
It came out recently and I saw there was no Elixir Formatter extension, so I built one. This extension depends on another general Elixir language support extension.
Hopefully this helps out any Elixir devs who want to try out the new editor. Happy coding!
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ryanwinchester
Yup, it’s really cool. Unfortunately the Elixir extension that adds syntax highlighting doesn’t do a very good job so I won’t be using it until either someone makes a better one, improves the existing one, or I stumble into enough free time to do it myself.
benlime
Yeah I recently tried this one out. Looks quite promising but as it’s quite new it still lacks support for most of my daily use languages. Would totally give it a try and even consider switching from VSCode if Elixir support would be better (language server integration) and if the TypeScript extension would not crash the editor
axelson
I’m not sure if he’s published it yet, but Carl Brand on the Elixir Slack has started on an ElixirLS extension for Nova, and has made some headway.
brandc
Hey, it has been published but Nova seems to be handling the language server implementation differently. The code is on GitHub if anyone wants to contribute - it’s my first extension so might be going in the wrong direction. Nova just implemented the Snippets protocol for language servers but still isn’t working correctly so investigating that right now.
axelson
Great! Can you post a link to the code on GitHub?
brandc
Sure you can find the repo at: https://github.com/brandc87/nova-elixirls
@pinksynth suggested we combine the formatter in one extension but not rely on the language server and invoke mix format so I’m just about to push changes for that
lessless
Hands down this is the most snappy editor on the macOS and native experience is brilliant.
AstonJ
Looks like it’s come on a fair bit since I last saw it - might have to give it a go again
It was on sale earlier this year as well - not sure why I didn’t pick it up then!
Think it might have been because:
I notice they have some options to turn most of that off now:
But still, every time I open it and a document it wants to connect to Gravatar! Why!?
lessless
Lolwhut
Social features for the editor should be optional. They have super decent customer support - try to shoot an email.
LostKobrakai
Not sure why pulling avatars (probably as part of their git integration) is so unexpected. They could’ve used gitlab/github APIs, but those will expectedly only work for github/gitlab users.