VSCode - Elixir LS + WSL

Also working here, Set elixir in the wsl 2 and use vscode in windows with wsl remote.
in wsl 2 terminal, run “code ‘somedirwithyourcode’” install the elixir LS extension in the wsl and that’s all.

Ok thanks, looks like there’s something weird going on with my PATH so elixir is not starting … I’ll have a play

Indeed, it works like a charm.

During the last weeks I’ve been using the remote WSL extension with the VSCode Insiders build. I can now keep everything in WSL. Autocomplete, syntax highlighting and Git all work seamlessly.

Yes. Took me two min to set up.

Is this possible using the remote Wsl extension now?

You can configure VSCode (on Windows) to use git that’s installed in WSL. I don’t even have git installed on Windows but the VSCode Git integration works.

One key thing is to keep all of your source code outside of WSL’s file system, so it gets mounted in by WSL. Then you’ll have no problem opening and modifying the files from Windows or directly in WSL if you use nano or something.

I went back to running vscode from windows just keeping everything else in wsl. The main thing to run in wsl natively is git due to how git on windows does weird things with ntfs that somehow makes wsl folders either unreadable without a reboot or just plain corrupts them.

Hey, good luck with the set up and if you have any questions let me know. Also thanks for the support!

Well hello Nick, I started using MobaXterm after following one of your excellent tutorials.

That video and included references looks just what I’m after, I’ll let you know how I go with it.

You’ve been very prolific, I may end up doing your docker course once I get through all the free tutorials, it might save me some time cross-referencing umpteen blogs and books. I’ve had docker on my to-do list for a while, and using the windows version of vs code via wsl is a pretty great motivation. (I’m doing the tmux tutorial atm so I have a bit to go yet).

Thanks!

I use WSL full time and VSCode (installed on Windows).

However, I also run my web apps in Docker so I don’t have to worry about installing things directly inside of WSL’s filesystem. At some point in the future VSCode is going to support seamlessly finding interpreter and library code running in a container instead of the local machine, so if you happen to use Docker, you’ll get the best of both worlds.

For the time being, I don’t even use extensions like Elixir-LS. I just installed vscode-elixir to get syntax highlighting.

Overall I’m super happy with the set up. I never liked heavy auto-complete because I find it creates micro-stutters and 95% of the time it gets in the way. My philosophy has always been to use snippets (works just fine with WSL) to help deal with code complete / boilerplate.