Add arduino support

[mpizenberg]

All is in the title. I've been enjoying Helix for rust / elm / python dev. I also have some DIY embedded projects and thought it would be awesome to have arduino support in Helix.

[sudormrfbin]

The instructions from nvim-lspconfig for arduino-language-server can be adapted to work with helix. An additional step I would add is generating a project specific sketch.json file so that the FQBN is not hardcoded as a command line flag to the LSP. For example:

{
  "cpu": {
    "fqbn": "arduino:avr:uno",
    "name": "Arduino Uno",
    "port": "serial:///dev/ttyACM0"
  }
}

[danielgomez3]

I've been tinkering with it for a while, but nothing is getting this to work. I get 'language server exited'. Maybe are there discrete steps? Perhasps my language.toml file isn't properly configured with the right args.. - Gentoo linux user.

[JurajLieskovsky]

I spent some time trying to also make it work but with no luck. I can start the lsp in my terminal

> arduino-language-server -cli "arduino-cli" -cli-config "~/.arduino15/arduino-cli.yaml" -clangd "clangd"
04:42:58.078921 LS: : Initial board configuration:
04:42:58.078960 LS: : arduino-language-server Version: 0.0.0-git Commit:  Date:
04:42:58.078969 LS: : Language server build path: /tmp/arduino-language-server1743458347
04:42:58.078974 LS: : Language server build sketch root: /tmp/arduino-language-server1743458347/sketch
04:42:58.078978 LS: : Language server FULL build path: /tmp/arduino-language-server2383572508

arduino-language-server is a language server that provides IDE-like features to editors.

It should be used via an editor plugin rather than invoked directly. For more information, see:
https://github.com/arduino/arduino-language-server/
https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

but when included in languages.toml as

language-server = { command = "arduino-language-server", args = ["-cli", "arduino-cli", "-cli-config", "~/.arduino15/arduino-cli.yaml", "-clangd", "clangd"] }

the lsp quits at internal clangd startup. I am also pretty sure the sketch.json file does not get loaded.

For now I am quite happy using platformIO Core in combination with clangd, although it can be a bit inconvenient when collaborating with others. If anyone wants to take a look, I can share my helix.log, didn't want to make the comment too long.

[abondis]

I don't know if you figured it out, but I was able to get some completion and hover to work with this setting in the root of my repo, the repo has a bunch of arduino projects

• .helix/languages.toml

[[language]]
scope = "source.cpp"
name = "arduino"
file-types = ["ino"]
roots = ["*.ino", "sketch.yaml"]
language-server = { command = "arduino-language-server", args = ["--log"] }

I am setting up my project with arduino-cli and I setup a sketch.yaml systematically, the *.ino doesn't seem to be recognized ...

This setup doesn't have the syntax highlighting, I don't know why but it's my first time with helix and I didn't have time to investigate yet

[blueted2]

I've managed to bodge syntax highlighting into working by adding the following to languages.toml:

[language-server.arduino-lsp]
command = "arduino-language-server" 
args = ["-cli", "arduino-cli", "-cli-config", "~/.arduino15/arduino-cli.yaml", "-clangd", "clangd"]

[[grammar]]
name = "cpp"
source = { git = "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp", rev = "a90f170f92d5d70e7c2d4183c146e61ba5f3a457" }

[[grammar]]
name = "arduino"
source = { git = "https://github.com/ObserverOfTime/tree-sitter-arduino", rev = "db929fc6822b9b9e1211678d508f187894ce0345"}

[[language]]
name = "arduino"
scope = "source.arduino"
injection-regex = "arduino"
file-types = ["ino"]
roots = [ "sketch.yaml"]
language-servers = [ "arduino-lsp" ]

and by "borrowing" the 'cpp' and 'arduino' tree-sitter queries from nvim-treesitter, putting them in ~/.config/helix/runtime/queries/{cpp,arduino}.

I'm not exactly sure why I needed to both use a more recent version of tree-sitter-cpp and manually import the cpp queries, I think there's a version mismatch between what Helix uses and what tree-sitter-arduino expects, but it seems to work.

I am using the latest version of Helix which subtly changes the language server configuration (language-server->language-servers), so watch out for that if you're using an older version.

[abondis]

Oh that's great, thank you, indeed it seems the queries are required. By the way my arduino lsp config, just works with command = "arduino-language-server" and no info about clangd or the rest.

[blueted2]

By the way my arduino lsp config, just works with command = "arduino-language-server" and no info about clangd or the rest.

Oh you're right, I had just copied the args from a previous comment without thinking.

[abondis]

@lieskjur said:

For now I am quite happy using platformIO Core in combination with clangd, although it can be a bit inconvenient when collaborating with others. If anyone wants to take a look, I can share my helix.log, didn't want to make the comment too long.

did you make that work properly in Helix? I keep having errors showing up in helix when modifying a platformio project about the #include <Arduino.h>, any suggestion?

Thanks

[samminhch]

@lieskjur said:

For now I am quite happy using platformIO Core in combination with clangd, although it can be a bit inconvenient when collaborating with others. If anyone wants to take a look, I can share my helix.log, didn't want to make the comment too long.

did you make that work properly in Helix? I keep having errors showing up in helix when modifying a platformio project about the #include <Arduino.h>, any suggestion?

Thanks

@abondis This might be related to your problem---my Arduino language configuration also includes cpp and h file types, and it ends up working just fine for me. Hope that was helpful for you :blush:

[[language]]
name = "arduino"
scope = "source.arduino"
injection-regex = "arduino"
file-types = ["ino", "cpp", "h"] # ⭐ this line is what matters
comment-token = "//"
roots = ["sketch.yaml"]
language-servers = ["arduino-language-server"]
indent = { tab-width = 4, unit = "    " }
auto-format = true

[language.formatter]
command = "clang-format"

[language-server.arduino-language-server]
command = "arduino-language-server"


[[grammar]]
name = "cpp"
source = { git = "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp", rev = "a90f170f92d5d70e7c2d4183c146e61ba5f3a457" }

[[grammar]]
name = "arduino"
source = { git = "https://github.com/ObserverOfTime/tree-sitter-arduino", rev = "db929fc6822b9b9e1211678d508f187894ce0345" }

[taotien]

I managed to get the language server working, but for some reason highlights aren't

[samminhch]

I managed to get the language server working, but for some reason highlights aren't

Have you run these commands after using the above config?

helix -g fetch
helix -g build

[taotien]

yeah I have done that. What should I be looking for in the logs to troubleshoot. Funnily the language server is running just fine

[samminhch]

yeah I have done that. What should I be looking for in the logs to troubleshoot. Funnily the language server is running just fine

Hm, I'm not sure why it's not working at the moment. A temporary solution I can think of for now is setting the grammar in [[language]] to "cpp":

[[language]]
name = "arduino"
grammar = "cpp"
# ... the rest of your config