Re: Xref/tags/lsp possible bug

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 25.04.2022 23:05, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs 
text editor wrote:
> You can still try to cobble up some kind of "list of top-levelish
> definitions" but it's inevitably a hack.

Yes, in most languages there will be at least some symbols that have no 
meaningful "global" names.

LSP could provide a table of all global symbols, though. And it kind of 
does, but not exactly. Not in a way that's useful to build an Emacs 
completion table from. But it will hopefully improve the spec further.

As for the reason why: my guess is that the protocol was designed as a 
common ground for a number of existing code assistance libraries/tools 
already developed within Microsoft, rather than something from a blank 
slate, and those are inevitably biased toward a particular UI.