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Expand contributing docs (#5967)
commit31b0c75832c56179e9fcb2301f1e92ac2fa116ff authorMathieu Agopian <mathieu@agopian.info> dateSun 19 Feb 2023, 19:52 (4 years ago) parent5ff2cb2
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88- Help with packaging on various distributions needed!
99- To use print debugging to the [Helix log file][log-file], you must:
1010 * Print using `log::info!`, `warn!`, or `error!`. (`log::info!("helix!")`)
11− * Pass the appropriate verbosity level option for the desired log level. (`hx -v <file>` for info, more `v`s for higher severity inclusive)
11+ * Pass the appropriate verbosity level option for the desired log level. (`hx -v <file>` for info, more `v`s for higher verbosity)
12+ * 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`
13+- 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
14+- Looking for even faster compile times? Give a try to [mold](https://github.com/rui314/mold)
1215- If your preferred language is missing, integrating a tree-sitter grammar for
1316 it and defining syntax highlight queries for it is straight forward and
1417 doesn't require much knowledge of the internals.