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| author | Mathieu Agopian | 2023-02-19 18:52:12 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub | 2023-02-19 18:52:12 +0000 |
| commit | 31b0c75832c56179e9fcb2301f1e92ac2fa116ff (patch) | |
| tree | cd126ce7bba85e49fe8f0282bc141adab4428c4b | |
| parent | 5ff2cb24e2ec5c8caf8972699e7ae69a15b710d1 (diff) | |
Expand contributing docs (#5967)
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/CONTRIBUTING.md | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md index 491cd424..d8c15c72 100644 --- a/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ Some suggestions to get started: - Help with packaging on various distributions needed! - To use print debugging to the [Helix log file][log-file], you must: * Print using `log::info!`, `warn!`, or `error!`. (`log::info!("helix!")`) - * Pass the appropriate verbosity level option for the desired log level. (`hx -v <file>` for info, more `v`s for higher severity inclusive) + * Pass the appropriate verbosity level option for the desired log level. (`hx -v <file>` for info, more `v`s for higher verbosity) + * Want to display the logs in a separate file instead of using the `:log-open` command in your compiled Helix editor? Start your debug version with `cargo run -- --log foo.log` and in a new terminal use `tail -f foo.log` +- Instead of running a release version of Helix, while developing you may want to run in debug mode with `cargo run` which is way faster to compile +- Looking for even faster compile times? Give a try to [mold](https://github.com/rui314/mold) - If your preferred language is missing, integrating a tree-sitter grammar for it and defining syntax highlight queries for it is straight forward and doesn't require much knowledge of the internals. |