Thanks for sharing, Zach I gave it a try and it worked as advertised.
Found that clicking on the "fringe" next to the code line automatically sets a breakpoint so it doesn't need a manual M-x dap-breakpoint-add! Cheers, -Nick On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 9:36 PM Zach Lankton <zachlank...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Team, > > I am relatively new to contributing to the CouchDB code base and have been > working primarily on improving the VSCode Devcontainer and some beginner > bugs. > > Recently, I've been working on getting code reloading and debugging to work > with the CouchDB code base using the Erlang LS extension. I started with > the VSCode DevContainer but recently challenged myself to learn enough > emacs to get this working there as well. > > My overall goal is to improve the onboarding of new developers to the code > base. I really like the (mostly) one-click launch of the dev container and > how quickly you can be working with the code without all the hassle and > heartache of the traditional method of setting up a dev environment and > installing all the dependencies. Additionally, this makes for excellent > isolation from your main host machine and can be thrown away easily when > you are finished. I plan to continue making improvements in this regard > while learning my way around the project and Erlang in general. > > In the meantime, for those interested in trying out code reloading and > debugging with the erlang_ls extension, I have written instructions on > getting started. These instructions are for Ubuntu and emacs but should be > similar, if not identical, for other OS's and IDE's. > > I would love to hear from anyone trying this out! > > https://gist.github.com/zachlankton/e3300672a75c8ed7fd5b77093c0e8738 > > -- > Thanks! > Zach Lankton
