Hey, everyone! I can finally announce version 4 of this plugin:

However, I’d also like to inform you that this will be the last version I’m going to release, except perhaps for minor bug-fix releases.

ST has served me well over the years, but I’m excited about Zed and plan on switching to it completely eventually. Zed isn’t quite there yet, but it’s in active development and becoming more and more usable with each release. Some of the reasons I wish to switch to Zed are:

• ST’s syntax highlighting “technology” is a dead-end and absolutely no fun to work with (I actually feel burnt out now when I look at it).
• Zed is pretty much on par with ST when it comes to speed and memory consumption.
• Updates for ST are too infrequent and don’t bring any cool noticeable improvements like I’ve seen in Zed.
• Longstanding annoying issues aren’t fixed. They are minor but maddening when they happen, like randomly not being able to comment out code with a shortcut anymore. Or when switching from file to project search, it messes up the search text. And then the search history itself is often confusing to me. I just don’t want to report bugs anymore. I feel they will go under and not be fixed for ages to come.
• My favourite is when I format the current file with a shortcut that calls mix format, ST loves to just jump up several pages. (It seems this is affected by how many files are open.)
• The search results view sucks. In Zed the results are syntax highlighted and you can even edit the code right there!
• ST isn’t good at providing features that depend on the existence of a proper syntax tree. Like increasing the selection to a larger syntax node. While it works in simple cases, try expanding the selection to an HTML attribute value and then further to include the name…

Anyway, I hope the plugin has been useful to many developers so far and wish you continued happy and productive coding with the tool of your choice!

Thank you @aziz !

I have tried emacs, neovim, and vscode for LiveView dev, but all of them had small issues that annoyed me in different ways

Your package has been a joy so far! My only problem is that sublime text doesn’t have great vim emulation as far as I can tell (I’m using vintage), but I’m trying my best to learn the “sublime way”. Here’s a screenshot if anyone else is curious what it looks like:

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Released v3.1.1:

@Eiji

Thanks for the update, @aziz. I’m still sticking with SublimeText for now and this is much appreciated. I, too, have been eyeing Zed. Unfortunately, Zed has an issue that makes it completely unusable for me. And, my concern about Zed is that it might become the next VS Code in terms of clutter and lack of focus. I still prefer SublimeText for this reason, but I do agree that the community surrounding it, including package development, seems to have waned. I’ve still yet to find an editor that gets out of my way as much as possible as Sublime, but hoping that Zed can resist the siren call of becoming too complex.

The next version will be released soon so I’d like to ask users of this package and also interested newcomers to please check out my dev branch and test it for bugs and usability issues. I tried to document things quite a bit but I’m sure it can be improved still.

Any feedback is welcome and appreciated!

Highlights:

• New snippets, builds, menus, completions, key maps, settings etc.
• Commands for running mix test and mix format (manual & automatic). With Alt+Shift+T you can run the test at the selected line or several tests with multi-selections. Press Alt+Shift+R to repeat the previously executed tests.
• Better parameter highlighting in function headers and in arrow clauses as in for or with statements.
• Lots of fixes and other improvements.

Have fun!

PS:

How to install

Just copy the contents to your Packages folder. On Linux it should be ~/.config/sublime-text/Packages/ElixirSyntax/.