language-elm package

Syntax highlighting and autocomplete for the Elm language.

Installation

There are two ways to install the Atom Elm Extension: using the editor, or using the command line.

Install using the editor (Recommended)

You can install packages within Atom. To do so:

1. Open the editor settings
2. Click the "Install" menu item
3. Search for "language-elm"
4. Click the install button on the "language-elm" result

More documentation for how to use the package manager can be found on the official Atom site.

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Install using the command line

Run the following command in your terminal:

apm install language-elm

Autocomplete

In order to get autocomplete working, please:

1. Open up a terminal
2. npm install -g elm-oracle
3. which elm-oracle on Unix/Linux or where.exe elm-oracle on Windows
4. Copy the path to elm-oracle
5. Open up the language-elm settings in Atom
   - Open up the Atom Settings / Preferences tab - Click on "Packages" - Find the "language-elm" package in the list - Click "Settings"
6. Paste the path into "The elm-oracle executable path" setting

Thanks to the authors of Elm Oracle

Jump to Symbol

Atom's native symbol-view package uses ctags, and thus doesn't support Elm without extra configuration. But this plugin https://atom.io/packages/goto uses langauge definition files to identify symbols, and does support Elm as long as atom-elm is installed.