Nova Panic editor (and extensions)

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#1

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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#2

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. :sweat_smile:

#3

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 :slight_smile:

#4

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.

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#5

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.

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#6

Great! Can you post a link to the code on GitHub?

#7

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 :slight_smile:

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