Elixir .ex and .exs are not highlighted.

[cocoaway]

I verified that Highlight supports the Elixir language

among those supported with .ex and .exs extensions.

In macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 the files are opened but there is no syntax highlight.

LM

[sbarex]

I have not implemented all languages ​​supported by Highlight. What use is an ex file on your system? What UTI has an .ex and .exs file on your system?

[cocoaway]

Hello,

.ex and .exs are filename extensions that identify files that contain Elixir source code.

To be clear, .exs is the equivalent of .py in python or .js in nodejs.

.exs is a file that contains Elixir code but is executed by Elixir immediately as a script, .ex is an Elixir file that is compilable and is transformed into bytecode .beam .

Using mdls :

mdls -name kMDItemContentType -name kMDItemContentTypeTree foo.ex

kMDItemContentType     = "com.bps.elixir-source"
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
    "com.bps.elixir-source",
    "public.source-code",
    "public.plain-text",
    "public.text",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.content"
)

Do you think it is possible to include Elixir among the languages you support?

Thx, LM

[sbarex]

I will implement it in the next version (I think I will release it soon). I'm afraid that the .exs extension is associated with macos files though. Can you also tell me the UTI of the .exs file on your system?

[sbarex]

Implemented on release 2.1.26.

[cocoaway]

Hi @sbarex , thank you very much !! It works very well.