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tonini / alchemist-server

Editor/IDE independent background server to inform about Elixir mix projects
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Usage? #2

Closed Anonyfox closed 9 years ago

Anonyfox commented 9 years ago

If I understand this correctly, alchemist-server wants to be some kind of "middleware", against which others can implement editor-plugins? If so, are there already some examples how people can use this from a plugin author's point of view? sublime text preferred :)

tonini commented 9 years ago

Hi,

The only one which I know using the Alchemist-Server so far is https://github.com/sanmiguel/helpex.vim I can't give you an example for sublime text because I have no experience with it, I'm an Emacs kind of guy. ;-)

But you could have a look at https://github.com/vishnevskiy/ElixirSublime where for example mix get's called in as a process too. But in this example the communication getting over tcp, not like Alchemist-Server where you communicate via STDIN and STDOUT.

The Alchemist-Server is just an CLI tool too, so you just create a process with it and sending and receive informations.

bryanjos commented 9 years ago

I've been playing around with using alchemist-server in a Sublime Text plugin for the past couple of days https://github.com/bryanjos/SublimeAlchemist. Working with alchemist-server has been going well so far. I've only really tried listing mix tasks and modules so far though. The thing I finally tackled today was being able to communicate via STDIN and STDOUT multiple times in Python. I ended up using a library called Pexpect. I think that might be one of the biggest hurdles which is why I'm mentioning it here.

Anyways, you can take a look there and get some ideas if you want to try building a plugin in ST. I've also took a look at the code in ElixirSublime to get some ideas as well.

Anonyfox commented 9 years ago

Awesome @bryanjos ! Would you mind pushing this early version to https://packagecontrol.io ? The more people can get their hands on it easily, the better the feedback I'd say.

I'll close this issue for now... but a little love for sublime is just great for us non-emacs-guys out there ;)

bryanjos commented 9 years ago

@Anonyfox maybe I'll try that. Now I'm wondering if ElixirSublime has any plans to integrate alchemist-server into it. I'll ask!