LiteIDE tips

liteide_tips.md

Install LiteIDE

• Download http://sourceforge.net/projects/liteide/files
• Unzip to a directory of your choice and make a shortcut to ./liteide/bin/liteide.exe
• Recommended settings in View | Options:
  • LiteApp
    • Display
      • Toolbar Icon Size: 18x18
  • LiteEditor
    • Behavior
      • Clean whitespace when saving files
  • LiteDebug
    • Rebuild before debugging
  • GolangFmt
    • Use goimports instead of gofmt, for code formatting
    • Automatically format code when saving

Useful LiteIDE Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+B	Build
Ctrl+T	Test
Ctrl+R	Run
Ctrl+W	Close Window
Ctrl+Shift+J	Jump to definition
Ctrl+Shift+K	Delete line
Ctrl+Shift+U	Find usages
Ctrl+Shift+I	Show signature / doc when cursor on function
Ctrl+U	Select block
Ctrl+L	Go to line number
Ctrl+[,Ctrl+]	Go to Previous / Next block
Ctrl+E	Go to matching brace
Ctrl+Shift+R	Refactor name

Add project to LiteIDE

• File | Add folder
• Select the folder
• Expand the folder and double click main.go
• Try to build the project using Ctrl+B

Setup LiteIDE Dark Theme

• LiteApp
  • Generic
    • Theme: black.qss
    • Or vsdark.qss
• LiteOutput
  • Display
    • Font Family: Hack
    • Font Size: 10
    • Check "Use editor color scheme"
• LiteEditor
  • Font & Colors
    • Font Family: Hack
    • Editor Color Scheme: cobalt black.xml
    • Or: visualstudio dark.xml

Tips

• LiteIDE can get confused when it comes to intellisense on vendored packages. Try copying the contents of the repo's ./vendor to %GOPATH%/src.
• LiteIDE X29 supports Delve debugging.
• Stop execution with the red square next at the top of "Build Output".
• Some general Go tips.