I just installed this package end TernJS following the directions given but Sublime is now crashing.

The console has the following.

SyntaxError: Unexpected token < ( plugin/meteor.js @ 6 : 0 ) ->
error: plugin_host has exited unexpectedly, plugin functionality won't be available until Sublime Text has been restarted

Any ideas??

OK, seems to be a problem with TernJS not this package.. mixed issues by the looks. Removed TernJS and it seems to be good now. Thanks.

I'm trying to setup a simple project to test the plugin features, but I'm facing problems to see it working.

I have a simple workspace structure:

.
├── .tern-project
├── main.js
├── myModule.js

My tern configuration is:
.tern-project

{
  "libs": [
    "browser",
    "jquery"
  ],
  "plugins": {
    "requirejs": {
      "baseURL": ".",
      "paths": {}
    }
  }
}

myModule.js

define([], function(){
    return {
        myNumber: 1,
        myString: 'foo'
    };
});

main.js

define(['myModule'],function(myModule){
    myModule.
});

I'm not getting hints from tern, I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or this could be a bug.

Thanks

How to add node modules for auto completion with '.' (dot) as auto completion trigger ? Is there a quick way ?

The plugin is unaware of the fact that a Region's a is not necessarily a lower number than its b. For reverse selections, a > b holds. (Ignoring the = case here, since it doesn't make a difference.)

Is this worth fixing?

The subprocess module in Sublime Text 2.0 build 2217 doesn't have the check_output function.

This causes a problem with the tern.py script, which errors out with an error on line 474 of the tern.py script.

This means that it is not possible to install the plugin using the tern.py script.

It seems that all the plugin python files always run with Python 2.6 in Sublime Text 2. The check_output wasn't introduced until 2.7 according to the Python docs.

I have used the instructions on the readme. npm install passed without errors.

When I try to type in a js file the following pop-up appears:

error: <urlopen error timed out>

No further indications are provided, then again when I start typing this happens again and again.

The following config is used (via .tern-project in the main folder of the project):

{
  "loadEagerly": [
    "/home/peterj/Documents/Projects/closure/library/closure/goog/*/*.js",
    "/home/peterj/Documents/Projects/closure/library/closure/goog/base.js"
  ],
  "dontLoad": [
    "/home/peterj/Documents/Projects/closure/library/closure/goog/*/*_test.js"
  ]
}

No further configuration is used.

De-facto this prevent me from using it at all.

System is Linux with working npm and node.

By using the node require along with esnext and browserify, the engine does not recognise this pattern:

var a = 'a';
var b = 'b';
module.exports = {
a,
b
}

but does recognise this

module.exports = {
a: a,
b: b,
}

I'm guessing there needs to be an overhaul for several ES6 features, with this being one of them.

I've been trying to get tern_command to work with node installed via npm and it doesn't seem to like it. I get the following in the sublime console:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./sublime_plugin.py", line 210, in on_deactivated
  File "./sublime_plugin.py", line 154, in run_timed_function
  File "./sublime_plugin.py", line 209, in <lambda>
  File "./tern.py", line 25, in on_deactivated
  File "./tern.py", line 290, in send_buffer
  File "./tern.py", line 130, in server_port
  File "./tern.py", line 143, in start_server
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 623, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1141, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I've set 'tern_command' to the following in my Preferences.sublime-settings:

"tern_command": [
    "~/.nvm/v0.8.23/bin/node"
]

"tern_command": [
    "/Users/larrygordon/.nvm/v0.8.23/bin/node"
]

"tern_command": [
    "node"
]

Please note that I've also tried the above 3 configurations adding a 2nd item to the list which is a full path to the tern script:

"tern_command": [
    "/Users/larrygordon/.nvm/v0.8.23/bin/node",
    "/Users/larrygordon/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/tern_for_sublime/node_modules/tern/bin/tern"
]

At the command prompt in iTerm I get the following:

which node
/Users/larrygordon/.nvm/v0.8.23/bin/node

I'm using oh-my-zsh and my .zshrc has the following to source nvm:

[[ -s "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ]] && . "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh"

I can get it to work by excluding tern_command from my Preferences.sublime-settings if I add a symbolic link to node like so:

ln -s /Users/larrygordon/.nvm/v0.8.23/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node

dropdown shows only the function name but doesn't contain the variable names..I am on windows/st3. It shows up sometimes...

@marijnh I have started a lint tern plugin at https://github.com/angelozerr/tern.lint

CodeMirror, Eclipse, Emacs And Atom have implemented marker to support lint. If you are interested you could implement marker with sublime to use the tern plugin lint.

Don't hesitate to contact me if you need some info about the tern lint.

With the following code sample, placing my cursor in the middle of the function doSomething on line 4 foo.doSo[cursor here]mething('one', 'two'); hitting alt+. returns Error: Could not find a definition

function Thing(){}
Thing.prototype.doSomething = function(arg1, arg2) {};
var foo = new Thing();
foo.doSomething('one', 'two');

After the install I can't get e.g. browser support to work. These examples do not work:

document.body.
// -> completion (e.g. addEventListener) does not work

$("form").on("click", selector, data, function(e) {
    // -> completion (e.g. event functions) does not work
});

Is it possible to display the argument hints and return values in the popup? Right now, the string that displays on the small bottom panel is not very intuitive.

There are two alternatives to this:
a) Display the arguments and return values at the same time as the function suggestion is being displayed in the tooltip.
b) Display the arguments and return values when the user enters the parenthesis, just like it works now, except that the values are displayed in the status panel.

I get "timed out" errors quite often (every 5 minutes or so). I'm using the Node plugin.

Advanced example from the main demo doesn't work in Sublime. That is the following one:

// And a little more advanced code...

(function(exports) {
  exports.randomElt = function(arr) {
    return arr[Math.floor(arr.length * Math.random())];
  };
  exports.strList = "foo".split("");
  exports.intList = exports.strList.map(function(s) { return s.charCodeAt(0); });
})(window.myMod = {});

var randomStr = myMod.randomElt(myMod.strList);
var randomInt = myMod.randomElt(myMod.intList);

After typing myMod.^ I'm not getting any Tern's completion (there's the default word completion).

I'm using Tern 0.4.0. Thanks.

Just a heads up...

When I make a new *.js file and press 'a', I get this error message from what looks like my corporate proxy server:

IIRC, Package Control seems to use the system proxy settings correctly out of the box.

I'm not really sure what is going on here as I can't see the <body> of the error message.

I was working on a file when this alert kept popping up:

I tracked it down to tern_for_sublime, and this particular bit of code:

return {
    //
    a: ''
}

Note: That is an invalid return statement, outside of a function.

If you copy that into a sublime js window, any time an autocomplete menu would pop up, you get that alert instead.

If you remove the return, the comment inside the object, or the object's property, it works normally. Also if the property is defined before the comment, there is no issue.

I checked to see if acorn throws an error with the same code but it seemed to parse it without a problem.

I don't know, is it an issue of tern for sublime or tern itself, but here you go:

Hi, I just installed this plugin for SubLime 2, but trying hard to get this work with YUI 3 JavaScript Library. When I press . it just lists the content in the file and not the actual API list of the YUI object.

I'm very new to tern and appreciate if someone please help me on how to configure this plugin to work with YUI3. Thanks in advance!

If there was a way to not create .tern-port files it would make using this a lot easier.

It's annoying for my git flow to have git status filled with .tern-port files

Is it possible to automatically insert function arguments when entering the parenthesis on a function that is going to be called? Right now there is an implementation that hints of the arguments the moment you enter the parenthesis, but it would be very handy to automatically insert them and jump into the selections of the arguments to directly edit the names. The current implementation that hints of the arguments and the possible types has great functionality, but isn't very useful as the panel is barely visible.

/**
 * @param {number} arg1
 * @param {Object} arg2
 */
fun(${1:arg1}, ${2:arg2}...) {}

I've tried implementing this by hacking render_argument_hints(*args) at line 398 that intends to display the function argument hints. It worked fairly ok, until I realized it needs some sort of context. If a new function is being created, inserting the message that is being hinted is wrong. This is also breaks when you try to edit a functions parameters, it simply inserts them again.

On a side note, would it be possible to implement this auto-insertion for object literals passed to functions (sometimes as optional parameters)? I've tried, and Tern, can read the types of a object literal if annotated with a specific JSDoc format.

Example:

/**
 * This format CANT be read, although it's a little more readible in some situations
 *  @param  {Object} obj
 *  @param  {obj.hello} hello  optional argument to hello
 */
function fn1(obj) {
    // body...
}

/**
 *  This format CAN be read, but it would be great if the arguments could be auto-inserted on a function call
 *  @param  {{a: number, b: string}} obj
 */
function fn2(obj) {
    // body...
}

Installed this via Packages Control ( Also tried manually ) but it always says "It appears Tern has not been installed...".

I think it's because how ST3 handles packages now.

I have configured a small Node application to test the Node plugin. Here is my isolated case.

If I try to jump to the definition of a property on a dependency, i.e. require('./test').foo, Tern reports "Could not find a definition."

Autocompletion doesn't seem to work for the required module either (see index.js).

In spite of this, if I do require('util'), autocompletion does appear to work.

I am using the RequireJS plugin that comes with Tern. Although autocomplete is working for AMD dependencies, I cannot jump to the AMD definition. It simply takes me to the function parameter that references the dependency in the current module.

Not sure if this is an issue with this package or something more. Please advise.

Whenever I have something like window.body, and place the cursor after window (and before the period) and then type another period I get the error message in the screenshot. There is no output in the console.

I'm using tern and this plugin on Windows, and I noticed a considerable lag after entering two characters (before completion comes up).

When you start typing a sequence of charactes, the first one appears instantly, but on the second character, the editor freezes momentarily and it takes around 1-2 seconds for the other typed characters and the completion to appear. Re-typing these same two characters again works instantly, probably because of some caching mechanism.

I realize this may be caused by other plugins installed, here's the relevant ones that run alongside tern:

• SublimeLinter 3 + JSHint
• BracketHighlighter
• Color Highlighter
• Alignment
• JavaScript & Node.js Snippets

I have been able to download and use tern_for_sublime and for vanilla JavaScript auto-completion and jump to definition works properly. In the tern_for_sublime package directory I've added a folder named plugins and added the meteor.js auto-completion plugin from Slava\tern-meteor.

In my meteor.js project, I have the following .tern-project file

 {
    "libs": ["browser", "underscore", "jquery"],
    "exclude": [".meteor/**", "node_modules/**"],
    "plugins": {
        "meteor": {}
    }
 }

So what I need help with is to check if the contents of this .tern-project file are correct and if what I've done by placing the meteor.js file in the package's folder also correct.

With this I'm able to see auto-completion but I'm unable to use the alt+. to jump to definition. I feel after two day of toiling with IDE's/Texteditors to fit my needs, I'm very close to solving my problem and I need your help to do that.

Thanks.

I get allot of this when editing scripts in html

I've just tried installing this and I keep getting an error that say:

A plugin (tern) may be making Sublime Text unresponsive by taking too long (1s) in its on_deactivated callback

Is there any way the work done in that function could be made asynchronous so as to prevent this problem?

From what I can tell the view size can be over 8000 and edits can be made quickly and easily, but, when you get down to the end of the view and start editing on lines of code that are over the 8000 mark Sublime Text just locks up.

https://github.com/marijnh/tern_for_sublime/blob/master/tern.py#L252

I was just now able to test on Sublime Text 2 and it's fine there, so this seems to only effect Sublime Text 3.

Installing this with Sublime's package control "install package" by selecting "tern_for_sublime" generates the error "it appears Tern has not been installed, would you like tern_for_sublime to try and install it?". Letting it do so generates the error "installation failed, try doing npm install manually in C:...\Sublime Text 2\packages\tern_for_sublime". However, package control lists two packages when searching for tern: TernJS and tern_for_sublime, and installing the first rather than the second works just fine. Does the installation by term_for_sublime us an alternative installation method? (if so, would it make sense to delegate to package control, since that seems to work fine?)

When I had the following autocomplete suggestion:

Hitting Tab inserted the autocompletion, but escaped RESET_CAUSE to RESET\_CAUSE for some reason:

This is with:

OS X 10.8.4
Sublime Text 2 Build 2221
tern_for_sublime 857951b
Node 0.10.13
NPM 1.3.2

I guess this is more of an enhancement request but it would be nice to allow completions within <script/> when editing HTML files.

Another plus would be having the ability to turn of completions when editing within quotes.

I can send a PR if you're interested.

ST3 build 3065 (32bit)

DPI scale: 1
startup, version: 3065 windows x32 channel: stable
executable: /D/Programs/SublimeText3/sublime_text.exe
working dir: /D/Programs/SublimeText3
packages path: /D/Programs/SublimeText3/Data/Packages
state path: /D/Programs/SublimeText3/Data/Local
hardware concurrency: 8
zip path: /D/Programs/SublimeText3/Packages
zip path: /D/Programs/SublimeText3/Data/Installed Packages
found 5 files for base name Default.sublime-keymap
found 1 files for base name Default.sublime-mousemap
found 3 files for base name Main.sublime-menu
loading bindings
loading pointer bindings
found 1 files for base name Default.sublime-theme
theme loaded
app ready
startup cache, total files: 174 cache hits: 174
pre session restore time: 0.0609922
startup time: 0.0799922
first paint time: 0.0809922
launching: /D/Programs/SublimeText3/plugin_host.exe
reloading plugin Default.block
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reloading plugin Default.copy_path
reloading plugin Default.delete_word
reloading plugin Default.detect_indentation
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reloading plugin tern_for_sublime.tern
loaded 837 snippets
plugins loaded
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./subprocess.py", line 1112, in _execute_child
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Programs\SublimeText3\sublime_plugin.py", line 157, in on_api_ready
m.plugin_loaded()
File "D:\Programs\SublimeText3\Data\Packages\tern_for_sublime\tern.py", line 531, in plugin_loaded
subprocess.check_output(["npm", "install"], cwd=plugin_dir)
File "./subprocess.py", line 576, in check_output
File "./subprocess.py", line 824, in init
File "./subprocess.py", line 1118, in _execute_child
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2014-12-21 08:16:09, next run at 2014-12-21 09:16:09 or after

Hi

Sublime Text 3 (on Windows 7) keeps complaining that Tern has not been installed even though I have selected the option to install it automatically by tern_for_sublime.

There are some errors shown in the Sublime Text console:

DPI scale: 1.25
startup, version: 3059 windows x64 channel: stable
executable: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/sublime_text.exe
working dir: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3
packages path: /C/Users/hezjing/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /C/Users/hezjing/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Local
hardware concurrency: 4
zip path: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/Packages
zip path: /C/Users/hezjing/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
found 4 files for base name Default.sublime-keymap
found 1 files for base name Default.sublime-mousemap
found 2 files for base name Main.sublime-menu
loading bindings
loading pointer bindings
found 1 files for base name Default.sublime-theme
theme loaded
app ready
wrote startup cache, added files: 3 orphaned files: 0 total files: 151 cache hits: 148
pre session restore time: 0.149348
using gamma: 1.9 (err: 81.5966)
startup time: 0.189348
first paint time: 0.192348
launching: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/plugin_host.exe
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reloading plugin Default.comment
reloading plugin Default.copy_path
reloading plugin Default.delete_word
reloading plugin Default.detect_indentation
reloading plugin Default.duplicate_line
reloading plugin Default.echo
reloading plugin Default.exec
reloading plugin Default.fold
reloading plugin Default.font
reloading plugin Default.goto_line
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reloading plugin Default.indentation
reloading plugin Default.kill_ring
reloading plugin Default.mark
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reloading plugin Default.open_file_settings
reloading plugin Default.open_in_browser
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loaded 837 snippets
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "X/subprocess.py", line 1090, in _execute_child
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_plugin.py", line 157, in on_api_ready
m.plugin_loaded()
File "C:\Users\hezjing\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\tern_for_sublime\tern.py", line 495, in plugin_loaded
subprocess.check_output(["npm", "install"], cwd=plugin_dir)
File "X/subprocess.py", line 571, in check_output
File "X/subprocess.py", line 818, in init
File "X/subprocess.py", line 1096, in _execute_child
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2014-04-09 03:26:35, next run at 2014-04-09 04:26:35 or after

Do you have any idea of what is wrong here?

As an update to my post below, perhaps I'm just misunderstanding what's supposed to work, because TernJS seems to operate the same way.

I'm basing this upon being similar to http://ternjs.net/doc/demo.html .

For example if I type "conso" and hit ctrl-space, I get "No available completion".

I've also tried inside a project that contains hundreds+ files. This is what some of my console output looks like:

Reloading plugin C:\Users\chris.CFWEBTOOLS\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages\tern_for_sublime\tern.py

When I hit ctrl+. the definitions from MDN do appear on some.

This is on a Windows 7 machine.

I do get a plugin (tern)... taking too long (1s) in its on_deactivated callback as well.

It appears node.js is working okay because the SublimeLinter for javascript is working correctly.

Is there a way to prevent autosave to close the autocomplete menu and overwriting the status bar message?

It would be cool if tern followed require statements

In the expression var Quiz = require("placement-quiz/quiz-state")

If I have my cursor over the u in Quiz and hit alt+. it would be more useful if it opened the quiz-state file and then went to the module.exports declaration then if it jumped my cursor to just before Quiz

Hi,
does the plugin support the type based autocomplete of tern? E.g. when I have a string, it shows me all string functions on autocomplete.
I tried it, but it said "no completions available" in the statusbar

Hi,

First of all I want to thank you, @marijnh, for a fantastic job with ternJS, it's awesome (and I can't wait for ES6 support, I will gladly fund it).

However, I have some problem to get argument hints for function call, see my gif:

Do I miss something?
My Preferences.sublime-settings contains the following lines:

"tern_command": [
    "/usr/local/bin/node",
    "/absoult_path_to/Packages/tern_for_sublime/node_modules/tern/bin/tern"
],
"tern_argument_hints": true,

My .tern-project:

{
  "plugins": {
    "doc_comment": {
      "fullDocs": true
    }
  }
}

In brackets I get the following (expected) result:

This is very similar to #36 (Mysterious error ") except it's caused by extra parentheses in regex literals:

var test = /)/

tern_command (list of strings) The command to execute to start a Tern server. The default is ["node" "/path/to/Packages/tern_for_sublime/node_modules/tern/bin/tern"].

so, ["node" "/path/to/Packages/tern_for_sublime/node_modules/tern/bin/tern"] is not valid JSON... is this an array and a comma is missing or some other format?

I have gotten everything to work except that only files in the "loadEagerly" path can be found. Is there a setting for looking within other folders for lazy loading that I am missing?

I can't get tern_for_sublime working on Sublime Text 2 (which I think is running Python 2.6?), Windows 7 x64 SP1. I've installed tern through npm install -g tern, and set the paths as necessary in my user settings:

  "tern_command": "c:\\users\\jevon\\appdata\\roaming\\npm\\tern",
  "auto_complete_triggers": [ {"selector": "text.html", "characters": "<"}, {"selector": "source.js", "characters": "."} ]

When I try to edit a Javascript file or get an autocomplete dialog, the console shows errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\sublime_plugin.py", line 236, in on_query_completions
  File ".\tern.py", line 54, in on_query_completions
  File ".\tern.py", line 356, in ensure_completions_cached
  File ".\tern.py", line 277, in run_command
  File ".\tern.py", line 151, in server_port
  File ".\tern.py", line 163, in start_server
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\sublime_plugin.py", line 210, in on_deactivated
  File ".\sublime_plugin.py", line 154, in run_timed_function
  File ".\sublime_plugin.py", line 209, in <lambda>
  File ".\tern.py", line 33, in on_deactivated
  File ".\tern.py", line 21, in on_deactivated
  File ".\tern.py", line 322, in send_buffer
  File ".\tern.py", line 151, in server_port
  File ".\tern.py", line 163, in start_server
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found

From what I can tell it's trying to convert tern_arguments, which is an empty list (defined on line 16 of tern.py), into a string and failing. Removing the tern_arguments solves the error and Tern works.

The plugin is currently available through package control so the installation part could be updated to include that info.

P.S. I will try to send a PR tomorrow but if somebody would like to proceed with that, feel free!

I had no luck to find this through the documentation itself, so wonder how I can set up a given plugin, let's angularjs to retrieve a given API documentation. E.g. compare the nice Array.push() textual documentation below from the demo:

with the empty $scope.$broadcast() one inside my editor.

Also the same question about the libs entries inside .tern-project like ecma5 or browser.

And is it possible to see the signature as well? Something like Array.push(element1, ..., elementN)?

Thanks!

It would be nice to expose an option to automatically show the autocompletion list after you type a dot on an object instead of having to use ctrl-space.

If you use a $ to prefix functions the completion will not complete just leaving you with the $

Example:

{
  "!name": "mylibrary",
  "!def": {
    "point": {
      "x": "number",
      "y": "number"
    }
  },
  "$MyConstructor": {
    "!type": "fn(arg: string)",
    "staticFunction": "fn() -> bool",
    "prototype": {
      "property": "[number]",
      "clone": "fn() -> +MyConstructor",
      "getPoint": "fn(i: number) -> point"
    }
  },
  "MyConstructor": {
    "!type": "fn(arg: string)",
    "staticFunction": "fn() -> bool",
    "prototype": {
      "property": "[number]",
      "clone": "fn() -> +MyConstructor",
      "getPoint": "fn(i: number) -> point"
    }
  },
  "someOtherGlobal": "string"
}

In the above example MyCon will correctly completed to MyConstructor, however, $MyCon will complete to $

I have a test folder with 2 files: a.js and b.js:
a.js contents:

var obj_a = {
    test_a: function() {}
};

b.js contents:

var obj_b = {
    test_b: function() {}
};

I open those two files, enter obj_ in a.js and there's not obj_b:

Ok, I switch to b.js. It has obj_a in auto-completion list:
Sometimes there are objects from both files in auto-completion list in file a.js, and there's only obj_b in b.js, like b.js was loaded in tern and a.js wasn't. It seems like I have to show some activity in one file for it to load in tern, like entering a text, trigger auto-completion or saving it. I don't know.