Sanjibukai
Suggestion of a color theme (syntax highlighting) for Elixir?
Hello Everybody,
Does anyone know a good color scheme for syntax highlighting adapted to Elixir.
In my case I’m using VSCode.
I tried some Color Themes dedicated to Elixir found on the extension market but even so I found them not suited for Elixir.
For example when using an inline def, none of them highlights correctly the do: like the def.
I know that it’s in fact a keyword (even in the implementation) but semantically I wanted the do: to be the same as the def.
Anyway, if anyone have a good suggestion I’ll be happy to try it..
Thank you..
Edit: I’ll also try to look at how syntax highlighting works (probably a lot of regex) and I’ll try to tinker with it myself..
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lucaong
:do is definitely a valid atom, and indeed the do: in def something, do: ... is just a normal atom key in a keyword list. So having a special rule for :do atoms would probably not work well.
By the way, really nice theme, I would love to see a port to Vim to be able to use it in my everyday editor 
LostKobrakai
They just atoms, that’s true, but they’re also special cased by being reserved words in elixir:
true,false,nil- used as atomswhen,and,or,not,in- used as operatorsfn- used for anonymous function definitionsdo,end,catch,rescue,after,else- used in do/end blocks
mindok
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