Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 at 08:09, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>   > Eglot assists programmers.  Think tags but better, e.g. not only "jump
>   > to symbol" but also "rename symbol".  It uses LSP behind the scenes.
>
> I see what you mean.  Alas, an explanation at that very general level
> won't help me find a name that distinguishes Eglot from various other
> packages that assist programmers.

The framing of your question, i.e. “describe what Eglot does without
mentioning its name”, pretty much guarantees that any other client
implementation of the language server protocol (LSP) will fit the
description.

And that is the general problem with functionality-based names.