Compile buffer and preview buffer create local elm artifacts

[thunklife]

I have the following project structure:

|_ elm-package.json
|_ elm-stuff
    |
    |_ (various depedencies)
|_ src
    |_ MyFile.elm

When I compile the MyFile.elm buffer, the process generates a new elm-package.json and elm-stuff directory; this also happens for previewing. When I run elm-make src/MyFile.elm, these artifacts are not created.

I'm fairly sure that I'm missing something, I'm just not sure what it is. Thanks.

[Bogdanp]

Can you post the contents of your elm-package.json?

[Bogdanp]

Closing due to inactivity, feel free to re-open if this is still an issue.

[fredcy]

I'm having the same problem as stated above. @Bogdanp, can we re-open this issue, please? My elm source files are in the "src/elm" subdirectory. Here is my elm-package.json contents:

{
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "summary": "helpful summary of your project, less than 80 characters",
    "repository": "https://github.com/user/project.git",
    "license": "BSD3",
    "source-directories": [
        "src/elm"
    ],
    "exposed-modules": [],
    "dependencies": {
        "circuithub/elm-number-format": "1.0.2 <= v < 2.0.0",
        "elm-lang/core": "3.0.0 <= v < 4.0.0",
        "evancz/elm-effects": "2.0.1 <= v < 3.0.0",
        "evancz/elm-html": "4.0.2 <= v < 5.0.0",
        "evancz/start-app": "2.0.2 <= v < 3.0.0"
    },
    "elm-version": "0.16.0 <= v < 0.17.0"
}

[Bogdanp]

I've re-opened the issue. Can you post the result of evaluating (elm--find-dependency-file-path) in one of your source files (or confirm whether or not it evaluates to your project root)?

[fredcy]

I did this in the shell:

cd ~/documents/elm/password
emacs src/elm/TextField.elm

In emacs I ran the command you gave and it resulted in this: "~/documents/elm/password/src/elm//".

I'm running emacs 24.5.1 on OSX 10.10.5.

I'm fairly sure that I'm using elm-mode-20160104.233 from elpa.

While writing this it occurred to me to try commenting out stuff in my emacs init file. It turns out that the problem only occurs when I have this code enabled:

(eval-after-load 'flycheck
  '(add-hook 'flycheck-mode-hook #'flycheck-elm-setup))

(add-hook 'elm-mode-hook
          (lambda () (flycheck-mode)))

[Bogdanp]

My next question would've been "do you have flycheck-elm on by any chance?" :). See this issue https://github.com/bsermons/flycheck-elm/issues/3

[fredcy]

That was it. I applied the fix given in https://github.com/bsermons/flycheck-elm/issues/3 and now default-directory is set correctly and it all works. Thanks. Feel free to close this issue again.

[BTW, elm-mode is great. Thank you for providing and supporting it.]

[Bogdanp]

Glad to hear it and thanks for the kind words :).