Wakatime support

[joetifa2003]

Is it planned to have Wakatime support, and is there any workaround to get it working?

[archseer]

It's not planned and should be an external plugin. You could implement it in a fork for the time being

[AceofSpades5757]

For reference, here are some links.

WakaTime Dev Docs
WakaTime GitHub

[adenoz]

Just bumping this. Just starting to use Helix properly now and would really miss not having wakatime. Is anyone working on a potential plug-in?

Edit: I now realise the plug-in system is still some way away. Regardless, I've raised an issue in the unofficial Helix plugin ideas repo here.

[n3oney]

I've created a workaround that works for me!

A WakaTime plugin pretty much just needs to call the wakatime-cli every once in a while with the filename passed. I figured, since I already save files quite often, and I have auto-formatting enabled, I'll write a wrapper script around the formatter that apart from the formatter, also calls the cli!

(Note - this needs #5626)

The script looks something like this:

#!/bin/bash
prettierd "$1" 2>/dev/null
wakatime-cli --entity "$1" --key "YOUR_WAKATIME_KEY_OR_DONT_SPECIFY_SO_IT_READS_FROM_WAKATIME_CONFIG_FILE" --plugin "Helix/version Helix/version" --write 2>&1 >/dev/null &

I use it like this:

It has been working so far.

[noahfraiture]

Hey, it doesn't work for me
The problem is that my config actually don't use the bash file

[[language]]
name = "rust"
language-servers = ["rust-analyzer" ]
auto-format = true
[language.formatter]
args = ["{}"]
command = "/home/noah/.config/helix/wakatime.sh"
[language-server.rust-analyzer]
command = "rust-analyzer"
[language-server.rust-analyzer.config.check]
command = "clippy"

wakatime.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo "empty$1" >/home/noah/t && wakatime-cli --entity "$1" --plugin "Helix/version Helix/version" --write 2>&1 >/dev/null &
rustfmt

I put an echo "thing">file in the bash file to see if the file is well execute and it isn't. Did I do something wrong ? My file is well formatted but it's well formatted even if I remoe the file actually

[n3oney]

I have no clue, as I actually stopped using this method after some time, because the times were inaccurate.

[noahfraiture]

I finally made my self but it requires to merge an unmerged PR (#5626) to be able to specify the file in a command.
I have this bash file

echo "[$(date +%s)] wakatime send : $1" >>/home/noah/.config/helix/wakatime.log && 
wakatime-cli --entity "$1" --plugin "Helix/version Helix/version" --write 2>&1 >/dev/null &&

for i in {1..3}
do
echo "[$(date +%s)] wakatime send : $1. Iteration $i" >>/home/noah/.config/helix/wakatime.log && 
  wakatime-cli --entity "$1" --plugin "Helix/$(hx --version | cut -d' ' -f2) Helix-wakatime/$(hx --version | cut -d' ' -f2)" 2>&1 >/dev/null
  sleep 120
done

And this configuration :

[keys.normal]
C-s = [":sh bash ~/.config/helix/wakatime.sh %{filename}", ":w"]

However I still have the problem of the editor not recognized

[n3oney]

Yep, as I mentioned originally requires that PR

[mrnossiom]

I made https://github.com/mrnossiom/wakatime-lsp. The bulk of the work (sending code heartbeats) is done by WakaTime's CLI, but it's notified via LSP events (e.g. change, save, etc.) Might want to check it out. I tried to make a nice README.

[noahfraiture]

This is probably the best options since the PR #6979 is not merge for reason I don't know

[kirawi]

That PR has some issues with parsing IIRC, @pascalkuthe