Elixir Language Support

Basic support for the Elixir programming language in VS Code.

Features

This extension provides VS Code with syntax highlighting and snippets for the Elixir programming language. It also integrates with mix format to provide document formatting. This can be enabled on save by adding the following snippet to your user or workspace's settings.json file:

{
  // ...
  "[elixir]": {
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  // ...
}

Motivation

There already exist two popular VS Code extensions for the Elixir programming language:

• ElixirLS: Elixir support and debugger
• vscode-elixir

These extensions are both more featureful than this one, providing for example intelligent code completion. However, both have their quircks and default settings that might appear oppinionated to some users. They also both provide their own language grammars and snippets which are maintained seperately and might not be up to date with each other.

This extension aims to provide bare-bones language support for the Elixir programming language, taking as many settings as possible from upstream sources. Its language grammar and snippets, as well as some other settings are taken directly from Elixir.tmbundle. One of the aims of this extension is to stay up to date with upstream sources, forwarding issues and changes upstream, hoping that other extensions might build upon it.

License

This extension is published under the MIT license.

Acknowledgements

The Elixir language grammar and snippets, as well as some other settings are taken directly from Elixir.tmbundle which is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.