Native Reason development with esy and Merlin
vim-reasonml provides vim IDE features for native Reason projects that
use esy and merlin.
- Automatically loads Merlin plugin from your esy
devDependencies. - Merlin autocomplete, goto-location, type-at-cursor features (provided by merlin)
- Airline integration for esy projects and compilation errors.
:ReasonPrettyPrintwith enhanced syntax error locations.- Reason syntax highlighting and Dune build config syntax highlighting.
- Highlighting of esy
#{build variables}in.jsonfiles. - Preliminary Windows support with
esyWindows.
See The vim-reasonml Plugin Documentation.
npm install -g esy- Install
vim-reasonmlwith your vim plugin manager. If usingvim-plugaddPlug 'jordwalke/vim-reasonml'to your~/.vimrc) - Create a project with
@opam/merlinas adevDependency. You can fork hello-reason to get started. esy install && esy buildas you normally would.- Open a
.refile from the project in Vim.
The command :ReasonPrettyPrint invokes the binary refmt which must be
available on your PATH. Add a keyboard mapping shortcut like this:
autocmd FileType reason map <buffer> <D-C> :ReasonPrettyPrint<Cr>- To enable syntastic support, add the following to your
~/.vimrc:
" If using vim-plug, install syntastic:
Plug 'scrooloose/syntastic'
- Neomake support can be enabled by setting
let g:neomake_reason_enabled_makers = ['merlin'].
Merlin is supported out of the box by pulling merlin from your
devDependencies. You will need to install an autocomplete plugin to get
natural complete-as-you-type behavior. For example to install
mucomplete, using vim-plug,
add the following config:
" If using vim-plug, install mucomplete:
Plug 'lifepillar/vim-mucomplete'
let g:mucomplete#can_complete = {}
let g:mucomplete#enable_auto_at_startup = 1
let g:mucomplete#chains = {'default': ['omni']}vim-reasonml includes an airline extension which show the project name of the
current file (and project status) in an airline segment. Another included
extension shows the current number of syntastic errors and warnings.
" Airline: Enable the airline extensions for esy project status and reason
" syntastic plugin.
let g:airline_extensions = ['esy', 'reason']
let g:reasonml_project_airline=1
let g:reasonml_syntastic_airline=1
let g:reasonml_clean_project_airline=1
let g:airline#extensions#whitespace#enabled = 0
let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1
let g:airline_skip_empty_sections = 1Some files from vim-reasonml are based on the Rust vim plugin and so we are including that license.

