NAME¶

nimsuggest - Nimsuggest

DESCRIPTION¶

Nimsuggest - Tool to give every editor IDE like capabilities for Nim Usage:

--autobind: automatically binds into a free port
--port:PORT: port, by default 6000
--address:HOST: binds to that address, by default ""
--stdin: read commands from stdin and write results to stdout instead of using sockets
--clientProcessId:PID: shutdown nimsuggest in case this process dies
--epc: use emacs epc mode
--debug: enable debug output
--log: enable verbose logging to nimsuggest.log file
--v1: use version 1 of the protocol; for backwards compatibility
--v2: use version 2(default) of the protocol
--v3: use version 3 of the protocol
--v4: use version 4 of the protocol
--info:X: information
--info:nimVer: return the Nim compiler version that nimsuggest uses internally
--info:protocolVer: return the newest protocol version that is supported
--info:capabilities: return the capabilities supported by nimsuggest
--refresh: perform automatic refreshes to keep the analysis precise
--maxresults:N: limit the number of suggestions to N
--tester: implies --stdin and outputs a line '!EOF!' for the tester
--find: attempts to find the project file of the current project
--exceptionInlayHints:on|off: globally turn exception inlay hints on|off

The server then listens to the connection and takes line-based commands.

If --autobind is used, the binded port number will be printed to stdout.

In addition, all command line options of Nim that do not affect code generation are supported.