elsp would be very close to elisp. Just saying…

  --alex

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> On 5. Oct 2022, at 17:08, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> To be fair, eglot does a bit more than just being a LSP client.  It
>> enables lots of extra fluff.  E.g., it popups up a docstring in the
>> mini-buffer using eldoc, it highlights broke code using flymake,
>> enables completion using company-mode if that is used, etc -- that is
>> quite a bit more than just a simple client interface.
> 
>   It provides LSP client services to several Emacs features, yes.
>   Having a client without this glue would be much less useful, because
>   it would mean we'd need to develop that ourselves.
> 
> Right, my point was mearly that eglot isn't _just_ a client -- so
> whatever name is derived from that wouldn't be a good fit, since it
> does much more as well.
>