Automatically 'watching' CoffeeScript files and generating JS files.. when mode is toggled off about sublime-better-coffeescript

[aponxi]

Thank you for your kind words.

I will be able to look at the code tonight, however first thing that comes to mind is this:

Compiling on save...

is printed in the console when you choose the option that compiles on save. Which is related to #14. Now that is totally different than the watch mode iirc. So what compiles the js files is that option. You are saving the files right? And then it compiles it?

Like here:

Writing file /Users/kempair3/GitHub/HumanCloud/app/assets/javascripts/angular/directives/scoped_add_to_collection.js.coffee with encoding UTF-8
Compiling on save...

What I don't get is this part though,

Writing file /Users/kempair3/GitHub/HumanCloud/app/views/dashboard/templates/angular/_hiiro_template_scoped_add_to_collection.haml with encoding UTF-8
Compiling on save...
Writing file /Users/kempair3/GitHub/HumanCloud/app/views/dashboard/templates/angular/_hiiro_template_scoped_add_to_collection.haml with encoding UTF-8
Compiling on save...

If it is compiling something other than coffee files, it shouldn't be like that because compile feature should work only if the syntax highlight mode is coffee. (or something, its in CoffeeScript.py#L49-L52 under isCoffee() function).

Is it compiling something other than coffee? That's an important thing for me.

Anyway, for your case the solution is simply setting:

 "compileOnSave": false

to false, like that. Let me know if the problem continues and I'm gonna note here to:

• Set compileOnSave to false by default

Thank you for your input! And I hope it helps. Keep me posted!

[aponxi]

Oh and one more thing. The watch mode is only on when you hit shift+alt+w or enable it from the command pallet, and it is off when you close the tab that compiled javascript is in. That's how I use it at least, I'm sure toggling works too but I usually close the js file to stop compiling the coffee script whenever I type something.

[aponxi]

@adilwali did it work?

[adilwali]

Woops! Sorry for the late response. I am not getting the notifications from github. CompileOnSave is false now. I'll pop in update in a couple hours to confirm if it worked.

Also, to answer your question from before: nothing other than Coffee has been compiled. And yep, I've used ctrl+alt+w before, but you are right, I think it's the 'turning off' that's the problem. Because I've turned it off and then checked the console to be sure it was off, but have had the files continue to appear (even after I've deleted them!)

[aponxi]

My bad it should be alt+shift+w - Toggle watch mode instead of ctrl+alt+w. I edited the comment now. So anyway, the problem isn't about watch mode but compile on save. After you turn it off, if console doesn't say Compiling On Save... then js files should not be appearing. Feel free to close the issue once you can confirm :) Happy coding!

[aponxi]

@adilwali Were you able to confirm this?

[adilwali]

This is going to sound silly, but I've upgraded to Sublime Text 3 beta, and now the sublime-better-coffeescript settings don't appear under 'Preferences -> Package Settings." Are you working on Sublime Text 3 compatibility? If not, I guess I should probably just close the issue for now.

[aponxi]

As of now I'm not working on Sublime Text 3 compatibility. Maybe as soon as it is released I will upgrade. The main reason for this is because I don't have access to ST3.

Feel free to make pull requests regarding compatibility, I can have a separate branch for version 3.