Text editor with Elm and project-open-files support?

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Does anyone know of a text editor which has both Elm syntax highlighting, and also Project support where it remembers opened files when I open project, but otherwise does not remember opened files?

I’ve been testing some editors but havn’t found one yet:

  • Atom - can’t save projects at all
  • Sublime Text - can’t be setup so that opened files are remembered for project, but not otherwise
  • Emacs - too slow
  • Vim - too strange

ps. My usual editor is Geany which does have the features I want, except no Elm support.

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You can have a look at Visual Studio Code. I think it could work for your use case

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Thanks, I hadn’t realized that it’s a different product from Visual Studio and also works in Linux.

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Having now used Visual Studio Code a bit, I noticed that it can’t save opened files to projects at all, and is also a bit buggy.

oh well, perhaps I just need to try add Elm support to Geany, if it’s the only editor which has the features I want.

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I open visual studio code by navigating to my project folder with cd dev/whatever/ and running code . in that folder. This way vscode does remember the open files.

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Yes, opened files are remembered, but that information is not saved to actual project-file (projectname.code-workspace). Instead the opened files are saved to storage.json in users config-directory (~/.config/Code for Linux).

This is just not acceptable as those settings can’t be backuped along with the rest of the project.

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This is just not acceptable as those settings can’t be backuped along with the rest of the project.

Oh, I see. I did not think of that usecase.

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Atom does have various project management plugins (e.g. project-manager or project-plus) and combined with its generally excellent elm plugins maybe gives you what you want.

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Thanks, it’s quite difficult to figure out all the capabilities in these extensible editors.

I’m currently testing Sublime Text again as I found a sort-of workaround:
SublimeText hot exit for projects only

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