Flycheck-pony is an Emacs mode that supports on the fly syntax checking of Pony files. If you are an Emacs user and aren't familiar with Flycheck, we strongly suggest you check it out as it will change your development experience.
This package can be obtain from
MELPA or
MELPA Stable. The main
branch is continuously deployed to MELPA, and released versions are
deployed to MELPA Stable.
M-x package-install [RET] flycheck-pony [RET]Then somewhere in your Emacs configuration, call:
(use-package flycheck-pony)At the moment, Emacs lockfiles cause errors with the Pony compiler, until this is fixed, be sure to add the following to your configuration:
;; turn off lockfiles as it causes errors with ponyc at the moment
(setq create-lockfiles nil)Flycheck-pony supports 2 different syntax checkers. Most people will probably
want to use the default pony syntax checker. It works by calling
ponyc -rexpr on your source.
If you are using corral to do
dependency management, then the pony syntax checker won't work for you as it
won't be able to find all your dependencies. For this eventuality, we provide a
corral syntax checker that works by running corral run -- ponyc -rfinal.
Note that the corral syntax checker won't update your dependencies for
you as they change. For this, you will need to use the actual corral
command corral fetch. The corral syntax checker is merely to allow you
to do syntax checking for users of the corral dependency tool.
You can use the flycheck-select-checker function to switch between the two
different Pony syntax checkers. By default, corral will be used if the
corresponding corral command is installed on your machine.
Big thanks to Richard M. Loveland who did the first version of flycheck-pony. We wouldn't be where we are now without your initial work Richard!