If you are looking to work with Elm in Vim you should definitely check out:

• Elm Language Server - The language server implementation for Elm. Language servers provide tooling for working with particular programming languages. The Elm language server provides features like compiler errors, elm-analyse warnings, completions and jump-to-definition amongst many more. There are a number of ways of connecting the language server to vim.
• elm-tooling/elm-vim - Provides lots of useful information on getting started with working with Elm in Vim.

It appears that ElmCast/elm-vim is no longer being updated and does not support Elm 0.19. This fork has been updated for Elm 0.19 and includes some other changes. No major development is planned at the moment but we do plan to keep up with necessary changes and merge requests are welcome. Changes so far:

• Support for Elm 0.19 compiler
• Support for building files with test dependencies.
• Improvements to the gf binding to handle prefixed function calls and module aliases. It also attempts to take you to the line of the function in question though that is behaviour normally associated with C-]. It might be moved at some point.
• Always execute elm-format in the project root so it can detect the elm version appropriately.
• Specific highlighting for modules to separate them from types

1. Syntax highlighting
2. Automatic indentation
3. Function completion
4. Build and package commands
5. Code formatting and linting
6. Documentation lookup
7. REPL integration

Check out this ElmCast video for more detail.

If you don't have a preferred installation method, I recommend installing vim-plug, and then simply add Plug 'elmcast/elm-vim' to your plugin section:

NOTE: If you are using vim-polyglot, you need to disable its default elm plugin by adding let g:polyglot_disabled = ['elm'] to your config file.

First, make sure you have the Elm Platform installed. The simplest method to get started is to use the official npm package.

npm install -g elm

In order to run unit tests from within vim, install elm-test

npm install -g elm-test

For code completion and doc lookups, install elm-oracle.

npm install -g elm-oracle

To automatically format your code, install elm-format.

npm install -g elm-format

The plugin provides several <Plug> mappings which can be used to create custom mappings. The following keybindings are provided by default:

You can disable these mappings if you want to use your own.

let g:elm_setup_keybindings = 0

The preferred linter to use with elm-vim is Ale. It should work out of the box.

Syntastic support should work out of the box, but we recommend the following settings:

let g:syntastic_always_populate_loc_list = 1
let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list = 1

let g:elm_syntastic_show_warnings = 1

let g:ycm_semantic_triggers = {
     \ 'elm' : ['.'],
     \}

call neocomplete#util#set_default_dictionary(
  \ 'g:neocomplete#sources#omni#input_patterns',
  \ 'elm',
  \ '\.')

:help elm-vim

let g:elm_jump_to_error = 0
let g:elm_make_output_file = "elm.js"
let g:elm_make_show_warnings = 0
let g:elm_syntastic_show_warnings = 0
let g:elm_browser_command = ""
let g:elm_detailed_complete = 0
let g:elm_format_autosave = 1
let g:elm_format_fail_silently = 0
let g:elm_setup_keybindings = 1

• :ElmMake [filename] calls elm-make with the given file. If no file is given it uses the current file being edited.

• :ElmMakeMain attempts to call elm-make with "Main.elm".

• :ElmTest calls elm-test with the given file. If no file is given it runs it in the root of your project.

• :ElmRepl runs elm-repl, which will return to vim on exiting.

• :ElmErrorDetail shows the detail of the current error in the quickfix window.

• :ElmShowDocs queries elm-oracle, then echoes the type and docs for the word under the cursor.

• :ElmBrowseDocs queries elm-oracle, then opens docs web page for the word under the cursor.

• :ElmFormat formats the current buffer with elm-format.

• Other vim-plugins, thanks for inspiration (elm.vim, ocaml.vim, haskell-vim)
• Contributors of elm-vim

Copyright © Joseph Hager. See LICENSE for more details.