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bug#64159: Feature suggestion for eglot: preferred LSP servers
From: |
Jeremy Bryant |
Subject: |
bug#64159: Feature suggestion for eglot: preferred LSP servers |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:20:06 +0100 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 1.8.13; emacs 29.0.91 |
Thanks João for the clarifications on the purpose of eglot, and the suggestion
to use C-u M-x
eglot, I will investigate.
My feature suggestion was from a more basic user-level selection of LSP
servers.
PS: In the meantime, I have worked out how to use C-x 8 to insert Unicode for
proper name
spelling of João, thank you for clarification.
João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 5:16 PM Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> (Expanding an initial discussion with Joao to the proper email list)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The variable eglot-server-programs includes suitable LSP servers per
>> major mode. Would it be useful for users to extend this to a preference by
>> order?
>>
>> For example, for example eglot has 2 supported programs for TeX:
>> ((tex-mode context-mode texinfo-mode
>> bibtex-mode)
>> . ,(eglot-alternatives '("digestif"
>> "texlab")))
>>
>> Is one preferred in terms of compatibility with eglot or other
>> functionality? This could be implemented with a specific order.
>
> Just a preamble: Eglot is an LSP client. The (great) idea behind
> LSP is for every client to be compatible with every server. That's
> not always respected by client/server implementers (the most common
> case is servers who assume that VSCode, made by the company who also
> makes the standard, is the de facto standard). But in most cases
> it _is_ respected is, and certainly Eglot as a Client strives to
> achieve that.
>
> So, in my view, it makes little sense to talk about "servers supported
> or compatible with eglot" . Even eglot-server-programs itself is a bit
> of an anti-LSP thing, though admittedly it's a very useful one in some
> cases. It's just a list of server invocations that Emacs can guess
> for the current major mode. I almost always start my daily clangd
> sessions with C-u M-x eglot, for example, and then pass one or other command
> line argument to the prompt, referring to history. I do this once
> or twice a day at most, and barely lose any time. So eglot-server-programs
> is almost useless to me. I try experimental servers all the time, and
> point Eglot to it with the same method.
>
> So the order of the alternatives isn't really important, or thought
> over. At least by me it isn't.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> João (with a tilde on the a for a nice round nasal ão)