Thanks for testing this out! I did manage to get it working too. First I reset the IDE to factory settings and then I noticed another step that I may have missed earlier: Under Preferences → Languages & Frameworks → Elixir → SDKs, I managed to finally set an SDK (which was previously missing, so the reset seems to have helped with that), but then I also had to set the SDK under Preferences → Languages & Frameworks → Elixir (one level above Elixir SDKs). It works now, which is great. Oddly though some of the functionality that I’m used to isn’t working quite right, e.g. if I press Ctrl + T for refactoring, I get a pop up window that says “Refactor this: (1) Move file; (2) Copy file” rather than allowing me to rename the object. So I might stick with VS Code for now, but thank you again for looking into this!
IVR
drl123
You may need to close the project and reopen it. I’ve seen that sometimes where the language pack seems to get initialized only on project load. So if you changed the SDK and didn’t restart it, it hasn’t really fully loaded. Usually, it ‘just works’ for me though.
When I do ^T, this is what I see.
IVR
Hm, restarting doesn’t seem to help. Just to clarify though, I can refactor a file name, but if, let’s say, I want to refactor a variable or a method, then I get the “Move/copy file” dialogue window.
drl123
Ah yeah. It probably won’t do that, at least in a small IDE, because it isn’t the native language.
Edit: Looking at the plugin’s doc’s, it only renames module attributes and params, but not methods. For that, you’d have to do a replace-all.
Also - there’s a vscode extension to bring in the IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts if you struggle with remapping muscle memory. (I may try it out myself on my next project)
mjaric
VS Code + ElixirLS + @spec, @spec, @spec ,@spec…and @spec 
and then @type, @type …
then when you need to refactor, just change the function you need to schange or type spec. Then wait for dialiser to report problems in “problems” tab. Warrning, in many cases it will just say that function has no return, but you know that it is affected by change.
Problem is if you are working on project hat has a lot of warnings already and no specs at all
quatermain
I’m updating this thread to ask if there are any updates about another IDE than VS Code which works good with elixir. I don’t mean code syntax only, but also some higher function like “go to function”, highlighting compile/dialyzer/credo warnings or something like that.
odix67
quatermain
odix67
sure, as elixirLS is an LSP implementation for elixir, I used it previously in VS Code, now with neovim, same behaviour, same functionality (regarding to elixir)