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VSCode extension for Lexical, the modern Elixir language server
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Troubles getting syntax highlighting in `heex` files #64

Closed mindreframer closed 9 months ago

mindreframer commented 10 months ago

I can not get syntax highlighting to work in VSCode with Lexical.

Is it not yet supported or am I missing some additional configuration for this?

BTW: loving Lexical, had only minor issues so far!

Blond11516 commented 10 months ago

Hi @mindreframer! Syntax highlighting should work as soon as you install the lexical-vscode extension and open an Elixir file (with a .ex, .exs or .eex extension).

Do you get any syntax highlighting at all in elixir files or is everything the default color? Do you have other extensions that might be conflicting with vscode-lexical?

mindreframer commented 10 months ago

@Blond11516 Thanks for the response!

I did figure it out yesterday! Syntax highlighting for Ex(s) files was working, but not for html.heex and also not in ~H""" """" blocks. I remember that ElixirLS had it directly in the extension, but it was taken out. Apparently the Phonenix (phoenixframework.phoenix) extension is now responsible for this, and it works now with Lexical and with ElixirLS. I was surprised, that this is not documented anywhere.

Please add this to the docs, so that other users avoid this confusion.

Blond11516 commented 10 months ago

Glad to hear you figured it out!

I agree it can non-intuitive to have to install a separate extension for HEEX highlighting. I'll keep this issue open as a reminder to add something to the readme.