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Elm Syntax Highlighting

Just add syntax highlighting for Elm.

Install Instructions

Recommended Workflow

I do all of my Elm development with Terminal and Sublime Text open next to each other like this:

Recommended Workflow

I mostly focus on the code in Sublime Text.

When I am curious if things work, I switch to Terminal and run something like elm make src/Main.elm to see if I get any errors.

Then I switch back to Sublime Text and use Ctrl-t (or Cmd-t on Mac) to navigate to the relevant files and make any fixes.

Workflow Benefits

The recommended workflow has some underappreciated benefits:

  1. Fast - Never wait for a slow editor. No background tasks eating RAM and CPU.
  2. Flexibile - Some projects needs more than an elm make call. I can switch to elm reactor or a custom ./build.sh script and keep essentially the same workflow.
  3. Robust - Not much can go wrong here, so I never spend time messing with integrations. Changes in elm, elm-test, or elm-format are only a concern in the terminal.

I really love this balance! It has that particular character of focused designs.


That said, I know some people want a bit more, so I made elm-format-on-save as well. It may be worth setting this up once you have been happily using Elm for a while and become curious what it might be like to use Elm at work.

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elm-syntax-highlighting's Issues

Snippets

Hi, I did submit couple of pathes to the older Elm sublime package. But there was a lot of mes too so I think a fresh start will bring good thinks to the table.

I use snippets and think they are very useful when you want to get started. So you dont need to look up the syntax.

Do they fit in this package or is that a separate package too?

top-level type declarations are categorized differently than let declarations

Given the following code:

helloStr : String
helloStr = "hello, world"

sumList : List Int -> Int
sumList =
    let
        helper : Int -> List Int -> Int
        helper sum xs =
            case xs of
                head :: tail -> helper (sum + head) tail
                [] -> sum
    in
    helper 0

We can observe that types in top-level declarations are categorized as storage.type.elm while types in let declarations are categorized as constant.other.elm.

Screenshot 2022-12-07 at 19 08 29

Screenshot 2022-12-07 at 19 08 44

This is somewhat unfortunate when using a color scheme such as Alabaster as it causes inconsistent highlighting.

Your thoughts on autocompletion

From the description of your workflow here, it seems clear that you don't place the same value on language-aware autocompletion that a lot of programmers do. Do you remember if you've elaborated on this anywhere?

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