Great tutorial to get this up and running.
I got it working.
I’m wondering though, since I’m new to Elixir, how do I compile and run code, a module. What is the workflow here?
OK, exunit.el can do this when there is a unit test.
But how do you deal with iex and mix?
Regards,
Manfred
Hi Manfred and welcome to the forum!
Personally I usually do that in iex directly by editing code (within the context of a mix project), and then typing recompile (docs) which will recompile and reload all files, often times I’ll also hook up exsync which will recompile and reload all the files in your project immediately after you save changes to a file. Another option as you are working on an individual file is to issue r MyModule in iex (docs) which will recompile and reload just that one module.
So usually I do this outside of emacs, although there are ways to load/reload code in the context of emacs.
Thanks for this info.
As a side note, I have great success with eglot and eldoc-box.
Flymake/flycheck is still making some trouble.
Having seen how those various little tools work, there is still a large feature set in Alchemist which is not available by those.
Are there people working on Alchemist?
If yes, what is the latest GitHub repo to contribute?
Manfred
Yeah there are still a decent amount of features in Alchemist that would be nice to port over. As far as I know there no one is currently working on Alchemist, some people have tried but it is quite a large code-base and very interconnected which has proven difficult to extract or refactor. If you want to improve/modernize alchemist directly you would want to fork the official alchemist repository: GitHub - tonini/alchemist.el: Elixir Tooling Integration Into Emacs · GitHub. Alternatively if you want to extract specific functionality from it you may want to contribute directly to GitHub - elixir-editors/emacs-elixir: Emacs major mode for Elixir · GitHub (or possibly GitHub - elixir-lsp/lsp-elixir.el: Emacs minor mode to interact with elixir buffers by using LSP · GitHub but that doesn’t have a maintainer right now).
I didn’t go through all of the posts here, so I might’ve missed something, but is there some initiative or work being done towards a PR for Spacemacs to replace Alchemist in the Elixir layer?
I opened a PR with additional configurations for elixir layer in spacemacs. Reviews and comments are welcome )
https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/pull/12668
