Does it work with vim?
I used to work with IntelliJ and VisualStudio, but prefer vim these days
gregvaughn
JakeBecker
@edmz To run it standalone, clone the elixir-ls repo. It’s an umbrella project. To run it, run mix run --no-halt from the language_server app directory. Note that it currently communicates over stdio, not a network socket, so it could be a bit tricky to do any standalone testing unless you can figure out how to launch it properly from your editor. Same goes for the debugger app in the umbrella.
I haven’t come up with a good way of packaging it up. Most packaging and release tools include Elixir itself in the release, which is not what you’d want for a developer tool (since the developer will have his own version of Elixir installed.) I’m open to suggestions on that, but for now, you have to run it with mix even in the release.
@gregvaughn I haven’t tried it with any clients besides VS Code (which, confusingly, is not Visual Studio). But there does seem to be work on integrating language servers with Vim (here) and NeoVim (here).
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edmz
JakeBecker
I hadn’t seen that, thanks for the tip! I’m happy to see that there are projects implementing clients for it for lots of different editors.
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JakeBecker
edmz
Korbin73
Hah, I was working on something like this as well (https://github.com/Korbin73/Elixirist). Looks like you got further than me, do you accept pull requests if we find something that needs fixing?
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JakeBecker
Of course! Happy to have help on it 
It sounds like there’s someone working on it as well for Google Summer of Code, though I haven’t succeeded in getting in touch with him yet.
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JakeBecker
I’ve just published v0.0.5 which includes Windows support. Give it a try! It should be running much more reliably now with different Elixir versions, too.
What I ended up doing to package it for release is compiling it to an escript, but not embedding Elixir in the escript, since you’ll want to use your system’s Elixir installation. Instead, I included shell and batch scripts that try to find your system Elixir and set ERL_LIBS to include it before running the escript. Lemme know if it still fails to launch and I’ll do my best to figure it out. Thanks!
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WolfDan
Thanks!
Now don’t show the error message, but still having problems:
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When you start a big elixir app gives this error:
[Error - 20:15:37] Elixir Language Server terminated abnormally because exited in: GenServer.call(pid<0.125.0>, {:get, function<12.8708225/1 in ElixirLS.LanguageServer.Compilers.Elixir.compile_manifest/8>}, 5000)
** (EXIT) time out
[Error - 20:15:37] GenServer ElixirLS.LanguageServer.Builder terminating
** (stop) exited in: GenServer.call(pid<0.125.0>, {:get, function<12.8708225/1 in ElixirLS.LanguageServer.Compilers.Elixir.compile_manifest/8>}, 5000)
** (EXIT) time out
(elixir) lib/gen_server.ex:737: GenServer.call/3
(language_server) lib/language_server/compilers/elixir.ex:208: ElixirLS.LanguageServer.Compilers.Elixir.compile_manifest/8
(language_server) lib/language_server/builder.ex:114: ElixirLS.LanguageServer.Builder.compile_elixir/2
(elixir) lib/enum.ex:966: Enum.flat_map_list/2
(elixir) lib/enum.ex:967: Enum.flat_map_list/2
(language_server) lib/language_server/builder.ex:35: ElixirLS.LanguageServer.Builder.handle_call/3
(stdlib) gen_server.erl:615: :gen_server.try_handle_call/4
(stdlib) gen_server.erl:647: :gen_server.handle_msg/5
Last message: {:build, %{}}
State: :ok
[Info - 20:15:46] Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.
[Info - 20:15:46] Child Logger.ErrorHandler of Supervisor Logger.Supervisor started
Pid: pid<0.76.0>
Start Call: Logger.Watcher.watcher(:error_logger, Logger.ErrorHandler, {true, true, 500})
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: 5000
Type: :worker -
For phoenix projects it keep loading, show some call stack (very fast) and the debug auto stop
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For Elixir aplications (in this case a tcp listener) initialize and stop instantly but it logs the init functions
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The error checker on Phoenix 1.3 show this:
If need more information just tell me 
Greetings!
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