Beat me to it. Enjoy! 
Thank you @aziz !
I have tried emacs, neovim, and vscode for LiveView dev, but all of them had small issues that annoyed me in different ways 
Your package has been a joy so far! My only problem is that sublime text doesn’t have great vim emulation as far as I can tell (I’m using vintage), but I’m trying my best to learn the “sublime way”. Here’s a screenshot if anyone else is curious what it looks like:
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Released v3.1.0:
- Added a palette command for switching between the test file and the code file. Example shortcut:
{ "keys": ["alt+s"], "command": "mix_test_switch_to_code_or_test" } - Quick search the complete list of projects on hexdocs.pm inside a palette-like overlay to open the selected project’s URL in the browser. (The list is cached after the first download and changes are detected via the ETag. Projects updated within the past year are shown at the top.)
- Search for packages on hex.pm inside a palette-like overlay. The results are displayed in another overlay and the selected project’s URL is opened in the browser.
- Added a missing command for showing the
mix testoutput panel when it was closed.
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@aziz Unfortunately format does not works for me (both by command and on save). Here is a log from console:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/sublime_text/Lib/python33/sublime_plugin.py", line 1494, in run_
return self.run(edit)
File "$HOME/.config/sublime-text/Installed Packages/ElixirSyntax.sublime-package/commands/mix_format.py", line 26, in run
File "$HOME/.config/sublime-text/Installed Packages/ElixirSyntax.sublime-package/commands/mix_format.py", line 69, in call_mix_format
KeyError: 'project_path'
I was thinking about project_path and just to be sure I tried to format a single Elixir script as well as a file within project. I have Sublime Text 4 build 4126.
@Eiji Thanks for reporting the bug! Will fix it today after work. I always tested within a project (it must be saved as well to have a *.sublime-project file.) The issue is that the window.extract_variables() dict may have the ‘project_path’ and ‘folder’ keys or they may not exist.
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Released v3.1.1:
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Did you updated it in Package Control? I can still see version 3.1.0 both in editor (tried reinstall package) and on the page.
Edit: After around 1.5h the version was updated. Formatting works as expected, thanks!
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You’re welcome! Yeah, it takes a while until it’s updated on packagecontrol.io.
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Just wanted to ask - how can I contribute? Are there any planned features? Bugs?
One thing for example I constantly notice - it adds unwanted aliases, or adds them in wrong place. Is this known?
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Never noticed that. Can you please give a steps to reproduce it?
Thanks for asking! You can always contribute something by creating issues, fixing bugs, adding enhancements or features via elixir-sublime-syntax on GitHub. There’s actually a backlog file but I didn’t tend to it for a long time. Some things have been completed and others are difficult, obsolete or not really worth doing.
Regarding the issue that you noticed, do you mean alias statements like?: alias :lists, as: List
In that case, List is added to the list of symbols of the current file (Ctrl+R). I can see it’s also shown in the global list of project symbols (Ctrl+Shift+R). Depending on the project the list may become too crowded. I don’t know, let’s think what we could do about it. But I’m guessing, so first please give a concrete example of the thing that you’re noticing.
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How would I change the order of snippets? If I wanted def and defp to be at the top. Is it a ElixirSyntax capability or I should make a custom snippet?
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Hey! Those snippets are coming from elixir-ls and the LSP-elixir plugin. I don’t know if they are customizable, but as a work-around you can easily create snippets yourself:
Store this XML text in Packages/User/Kernel.def.sublime-snippet:
<snippet>
<content><![CDATA[def $1($2) do
end]]></content>
<tabTrigger>def</tabTrigger>
<scope>source.elixir</scope>
<description>Kernel.def/2</description>
</snippet>
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Hi everyone, just wanted to ask, if anyone else has freezes with ElixirSyntax?
I’m using it with Sublime Text 4 to edit a phoenix project (while mix phx.server is on), but even in a simple cases I get freezes that may last up to 2 seconds.
One example: defp format(n), do: n, as I typed do: editor froze, had to wait a few seconds to see n. Another example: typing @constant [] gives a freeze.
And it’s not exclusive to typing, sometimes freezing occurs even if when I use backspace and delete whitespaces, for example.
It didn’t happen with any other plugins, and disabling ElixirSyntax seems to fix the issue. “I use arch btw” if that’s relevant.
I tried to change output_scroll_time in settings, but it changed nothing.
Apart from that it is a great plugin, and I love the .heex file support - so I would like to see if there’s a way to get it working without those disruptive interruptions.
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Hi, abar!
That’s rather strange. I couldn’t reproduce the freezes using your examples. Maybe the set of plugins you have installed may cause negative interactions? Do you still have the Elixir plugin installed?
Please share your list of plugins if you don’t mind. 
Also: can you make out what exactly spikes the CPU using htop?
Hi aziz, sorry, my bad. In the process of recording a screencast for freezes, I have noticed that I have ElixirSublime package activated too.
Disabling it fixed the issue, now everything works as expected. My apologies for the distraction 
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Hey, no worries. Enjoy developing with ElixirSyntax! 
@aziz Now that there is a TreeSitter plugin for SublimeText, would it be possible to update/simplify ElixirSyntax to work with its definitions for nodes rather than the scopes provided by SublimeText? It might be that I’m not understanding what is possible with the API provided by the TreeSitter plugin though and that it might not be possible to develop a color scheme based on it for SublimeText.
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Hi, @distefam! That’s interesting! Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve been checking out what the plugin is capable of, but I’m not sure how it could join forces with ST. Sublime’s syntax engine isn’t really controllable through Python code. You can add individual text regions with styles on top of the already highlighted code, but it would be crazy inefficient and slow to highlight views solely with TreeSitter’s AST info and ST API calls to add_regions(). I imagine the plugin could be useful for code navigation or listing symbols, but then again LSP-elixir and ST already do that (for better or worse.)
It isn’t really meaningful to adapt ElixirSyntax because ST syntax definitions (YAML files with stacked regular expressions) and TreeSitter grammars are different technologies. The only thing I believe would make sense is if ST ditched its engine and replaced it with TreeSitter entirely. But as I mentioned in my original posting, judging from an exchange on GitHub that’s probably not gonna happen. Who knows, maybe it will happen when TreeSitter editors start leaving ST in the dust, but for me there isn’t one out there yet that does it for me.
I’ll continue looking into this. It’s new and definitely exciting.
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Hey, everyone! I can finally announce version 4 of this plugin:
However, I’d also like to inform you that this will be the last version I’m going to release, except perhaps for minor bug-fix releases.
ST has served me well over the years, but I’m excited about Zed and plan on switching to it completely eventually. Zed isn’t quite there yet, but it’s in active development and becoming more and more usable with each release. Some of the reasons I wish to switch to Zed are:
- ST’s syntax highlighting “technology” is a dead-end and absolutely no fun to work with (I actually feel burnt out now when I look at it).
- Zed is pretty much on par with ST when it comes to speed and memory consumption.
- Updates for ST are too infrequent and don’t bring any cool noticeable improvements like I’ve seen in Zed.
- Longstanding annoying issues aren’t fixed. They are minor but maddening when they happen, like randomly not being able to comment out code with a shortcut anymore. Or when switching from file to project search, it messes up the search text. And then the search history itself is often confusing to me. I just don’t want to report bugs anymore. I feel they will go under and not be fixed for ages to come.
- My favourite is when I format the current file with a shortcut that calls
mix format, ST loves to just jump up several pages. (It seems this is affected by how many files are open.) - The search results view sucks. In Zed the results are syntax highlighted and you can even edit the code right there!
- ST isn’t good at providing features that depend on the existence of a proper syntax tree. Like increasing the selection to a larger syntax node. While it works in simple cases, try expanding the selection to an HTML attribute value and then further to include the name…
Anyway, I hope the plugin has been useful to many developers so far and wish you continued happy and productive coding with the tool of your choice!
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