clag
Hi guys, I have noticed that the support for elixir in visual studio code is quite good, autocomplete is correct, even for installed packages, error suggestions work well, unfortunately vscode consumes too much ram and I prefer lighter editors, but support in spacemacs leaves something to be desired.
using spacemacs require a lot of steps before start to use elixir in a project and even after that autocompletion is not good and simple syntax errors are not even detected, I have seen that LS is usable in many editors, even recently I saw a post using vim How to use Elixir LS with Vim | Mitchell Hanberg , but I don’t find how to integrate the LS of elixir (that exists) with emacs, someone has been lucky doing this?..or someone using emacs to program elixir using some other package has had good results? thank you!
Where Next?
Trending in Questions
Other Trending Topics
Latest on Elixir Forum
Sponsor Spotlight
Deploy Phoenix to your own VPS with PaaS ease: push-to-deploy, zero downtime, auto SSL, managed Postgres. 14-day free trial at potions.io
Categories:
Sub Categories:
Forums
Popular Tags
- #ecto
- #liveview
- #troubleshooting
- #learning-elixir
- #library
- #deployment
- #erlang
- #testing
- #genserver
- #mix
- #absinthe
- #remote-other
- #otp
- #plug
- #how-to-question
- #macros
- #postgres
- #elixirconf
- #channels
- #exunit
- #discussion
- #code-sync
- #podcasts
- #javascript
- #onsite
- #dialyzer
- #docker
- #authentication
- #umbrella
- #full-time-contract
- #ai
- #podcasts-by-brainlid
- #ecto-query
- #blog-post
- #elixirconf-us
- #elixir-ls
- #phoenix_html
- #iex
- #graphql
- #genstage
- #websockets
- #supervisor
- #advent-of-code
- #distillery
- #processes
- #elixirconf-eu
- #api
- #forms
- #security
- #metaprogramming
Our Sponsors
Supporting innovation across the BEAM ecosystem.
We build reliable cloud platforms for business-critical systems.
Catch errors, track performance, monitor hosts and more.
Error tracking, logs, uptime, and Just Enough APM. Built for developers.
Elixir, Erlang & BEAM conferences from Code Sync - join us in 2026!
Practical resources that improve the lives of professional developers.
Producing high quality Elixir screencasts since 2017.
**Building the future of software with AI, trust, and human connection.**
The team behind Membrane, Popcorn, LiveDebugger. Available for hire.
Courses that'll move you from confusion to "Aha, now I get it!"
Showing Posts 1 to 3- Show Best Posts
- Show All (oldest first)
- Show All (newest first)
Matt
What do you mean using Spacemacs requires a lot of steps before staring to use Elixir in a project? Emacs is quite easy to use with Elixir. I would recommend using Alchemist with Emacs. If you’re using Spacemacs, alchemist is included with the Elixir layer.
All I know is Emacs, so I can only really point you to Emacs resources. I haven’t played with LS and Emacs yet. I haven’t had the need to use them yet. I have seen that Vim integrates with an Elixir LS and Vim is an excellent editor.
axelson
Alchemist doesn’t have any integration with the Elixir Language Server yet and there are a number of things that are rather broken at the moment, especially go-to-definition. @Trevoke has been studiously working on integrating the language server into Alchemist and currently has a PR up that you should give a try: [WIP] goto def and find usage now backed by elixir-ls by Trevoke · Pull Request #350 · tonini/alchemist.el · GitHub
You can also join in on the #alchemist-dev channel of the Elixir Slack if you’re interested in the development. (I try to help out but I don’t know enough emacs lisp to even be dangerous)
Matt
I will check it out thanks