Re: [Vala] Is there any usable editor for Vala?

[Andy Lees <andrewl oz gmail com>]

Hi,

A recent version of Anjuta compiled with Vala support enabled does pretty
well on code completion and go to declaration, and has the best debugger
for Vala that I've come across, albeit with a need to understand the C
structures produced by the Vala compiler.

However, for significant coding tasks (other than error fixes) I by far
prefer sublime text 3 with the Vala textmate bundle and ctags installed.
Of course if you use a Mac, then Textmate might be an alternative, but I
haven't tried it.  Make sure you set the ctags executable to use
anjuta-ctags (installed with Anjuta), which understands vala code and
generates suitable tags files.

I tried Valama a while back but couldn't get it to work with Vala on my box
(Mint 17).

Atom might also work, but I haven't tried it recently.

So my tools of choice are Anjuta for debugging and for compile error fixes
and other small changes, and Sublime Text 3 for most of my editing.

Good luck!

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Matthias Berndt <Matthias_Berndt gmx de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wonder if you have any recommendation regarding a decent editor for Vala.
> I don't need much, just code completion and "go to declaration", but I
> can't seem to find anything that works. Here's the one's I've looked at:
>
> Anjuta: Imported the vala compiler as an autotools project, but neither
> code completion nor go to declaration works.
> Gnome Builder: crashes as soon as I open a .vala file.
> Geany: completion only suggests bogus (i. e. it offers methods that don't
> exist, doesn't offer the ones that do etc.).
> vala tools for gedit: not tried, but seems dead (last release was five
> years ago)
> valencia: also seems dead, couldn't get it to compile
> MonoDevelop: Vala support seems to have been removed
> Valama: Completion works! It also has 100% CPU usage at all times,
> millions of "self != NULL" assertion failures, no way to import existing
> code, it is slow and if a "go to declaration" feature exists, I couldn't
> find it. So it's also not really usable.
>
> What do you guys use to hack the vala compiler?
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