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+# Elixir Tooling
+
+Disclaimer: This file is intended to document learnings about tooling text editors to work with Elixir.
+
+## Emacs
+
+### Useful plugins
+
+* `Elixir-mode`: font-locking, indentation, etc.
+* `Alchemist`: IEx, mix, autocompletion via `company`, etc.
+* `Flycheck`: works with linters, `Dogma` and `Credo`
+
+When running an umbrella app, to allow `Alchemist` to properly jump to function definitions run...
+
+```bash
+$ ln -sf ../../_build _build
+```
+
+...where `../../_build` is the path to the umbrella root directory.