Elixir support

[goertzenator]

Consider supporting the Elixir language described here: http://elixir-lang.org/

Business case: If you believe Dave Thomas (of Ruby and Pragmatic Programmer fame), Elixir is an important up and coming language. If it does become popular, a good Elixir plugin would surely drive IntelliJ sales. By having a good Erlang plugin, I think you are already halfway to having good Elixir support.

[jkbbwr]

+1 can we have please

[borisceranic]

+1!

[leafpeak]

+1

[ignatov]

Hi guys, As a temporary workaround you can install TextMate bundle via TextMate bundles support plugin.

[DylanLukes]

+1

[newgeekorder]

+1

[eka]

+1

[KronicDeth]

I just started development on an Elixir plugin: https://github.com/KronicDeth/intellij-elixir. Be kind, I'm only through (http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IntelliJIDEA/Language+and+File+Type), which is the first step after setting up the SDK, but I do I have Elixir icons automatically associating with .ex and .exs extensions. Anyone is welcome to join me.

[vishnevskiy]

Now that Elixir has hit 1.0.0 this would be awesome

:+1:

[eka]

+1

[mkuznetsov]

any progress on elixir support after workarround post and KronicDeth syntax highlight?

[KronicDeth]

intellij-elixir v0.2.0 has support for most tokens and for match_expr, which you could summarize as most binary operations, but I'm currently working on no_parens_expr, which is function calls without parentheses, and the rest that needs to be done before I'd count the parser as complete is any issue for the v1.0.0 milestone. The README goes over everything that's currently supported.

Just to clear, the syntax highlighting in IntelliJ is performed by the lexer, which is complete except for a few keywords, like do, so you'll get syntax highlighting, but the parser, which says which token is valid after another token is incomplete, so you'll get the red squiggly underline between tokens when the incomplete parser doesn't understand that part of the Elixir grammar yet.

The Textmate bundle still has more features as far as I can tell, but I haven't actually tried it out. Don't want to get disheartened about how many features I still need to implement to catch up with it and https://github.com/tonini/alchemist.el.

Something to look forward in v0.2.1 is the first Quick Fix (when IntelliJ shows an inspection error in red and you type ALT+ENTER and it fixes it) for no_parens_expr when you have a space between the function and the parentheses, which the Elixir compiler will error on with "unexpected parenthesis. If you are making a function call, do not insert spaces in between the function name and the opening parentheses.". I'm not sure if any of the other editor plugins can do the equivalent of Quick Fixes.

[jlirochon]

+1 but to me, the killer feature would be the debugger. As @KronicDeth said other syntax highlighting projects exists for Elixir. But no debugger at all ?

Since intellij-erlang seems to wrap erlang debugger, and I know we can use this debugger to debug Elixir code (successfully tested using Quaff.Debug module from https://github.com/qhool/quaff on Elixir 1.0.4), a convergence between intellij-erlang and intellij-elixir may be a good idea.

[KronicDeth]

@jlirochon https://github.com/KronicDeth/intellij-elixir/issues/81 already existed to add debugger support to intellij-elixir using intellij-erlang's debugger. @mvbaffa may be working on it in https://github.com/KronicDeth/intellij-elixir/issues/124 if I can explain the testing and development setup correctly for them to work on it.

[smeevil]

yes please !

[qertoip]

+1 the JetBrains Elixir IDE simply must happen :)

[kvakvs]

Please refer to https://github.com/KronicDeth/intellij-elixir Closing this