The official Hologram extension for VS Code is now live! It brings full syntax highlighting for HOLO templates - ~HOLO sigils in .ex files and standalone .holo template files. As the template language has grown, writing HOLO in plain text started to feel increasingly painful - this extension fixes …

While I think I may be the last Vimmer in the Elixir community to have not moved onto NeoVim at this point, I have a PR in the works to bring this to Vim. I’ll likely merge in the next couple of weeks.

Nice, good to see Vim getting some love too! I haven’t done any research yet on how other editors handle this, but I’m planning to create dedicated packages for other editors as well - including Vim, if applicable. Contributions are welcome - if you’re interested in contributing to the Vim side, you…

For Neovim/Helix (and some more obscure ones), it’s as easy as creating a set of treesitter queries ( sigil too ). Both editors also have a means for users to add custom queries to their config, so we don’t have to wait for official support to get merged and released.

Thanks, will take a look at this!

For Vim it’s easy to piggback off the work that was already done for (H)EEx (takes care of most highlighting and auto-indent). I just had to add control blocks and {} inside HTML attribute values. The PR you see is basically covers done, I’m just sitting on it for a couple of weeks to make sure I …

Thank you, appreciate it! :slight_smile:

Good to get syntax highlighting, that plain text sure was grating :slightly_smiling_face:

Hologram gets official VS Code extension

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mward-sudo March 27, 2026, 1:58am 9

Good to get syntax highlighting, that plain text sure was grating

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