elm-plugin

Elm language plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.

Features

This plugin supports Elm 0.17.0. If you need to have different version supported, see this link.

• Parsing the syntax
• Syntax highlighting and color settings page
• Going to declaration
• Highlighting unresolved references
• Code completion
• Brace matching
• Spellchecking
• Rename refactoring

Formatting is currently not a feature of the plugin, but elm-format can be used instead. If you don't know how to configure IntelliJ to use elm-format you can find some information here

Building from sources

0. Setup your development environment according to this instruction.
1. Clone this repository.
2. Open it as a Plugin Project in IntelliJ IDEA (either Community or Ultimate version).
3. Make sure you have Grammar-Kit and PsiViewer plugins installed.
4. Delete the content of gen directory if you have previously generated parser code from another version of the BNF file.
5. Open src/org/elmlang/intellijplugin/Elm.bnf file and generate the parser code (*)
6. Open src/org/elmlang/intellijplugin/Elm.flex file and generate lexer code (*)
7. The plugin should be ready to run now.

(*) either from a context menu or by keyboard shortcut ⇧⌘G

Contributing

If you would like to develop a new feature or fix a bug:

• Please add an issue to Github so that everyone can share his/her opinions and ideas
• Please create a pull request when you finish development
• If you would like to do any change to the parser or a non-trivial change to resolving references, please contact me before.

License: MIT