STstewbrew·Feb 28, 2014
Why don't you use https://github.com/leafgarland/typescript-vim?
There is also https://github.com/clausreinke/typescript-tools
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| Aug 5 | 2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 12 | 2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 19 | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 26 | 2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2 | 2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 9 | 2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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What Hacker News says
3 sourcesThe Sublime Text plugin is making use of typescript-tools [1] which also has support for vim and emacs.
[1]: https://github.com/clausreinke/typescript-tools
In TypeScript 0.9 – What’s ImprovedThis seems a little disingenuous. I bet Intellij already has great support, but the top link you give there for Sublime Text, emacs and vim doesn't really give anywhere near the level of support you get in Visual Studio. Literally just syntax highlighting! In Visual Studio you get at least error highlighting/completions/code generation/navigation/refactoring.
There are definitely attempts to bring the language service to other editors but when I tried them last (just before the 0.9 release) they seemed either featureless or very slow. If someone can recommend one for sublime/emacs/vim that they actually use I'd be very appreciative!
EDIT: related thing that annoyed me: the language service is part of the TypeScript repo but as far as I can see from there is no official documentation on how to go about leveraging it for other editors! I ad
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mit I can kind of understand this until the language is less of a moving target. The best way to get started for now seems to be looking at third party efforts like https://github.com/clausreinke/typescript-tools.