From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias? Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:17:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83bkqqtnoa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pmfdduix.fsf@gnu.org> <86wn9ji3ma.fsf@gmail.com> <86tu4lsnqk.fsf@gmail.com> <83ill0vzit.fsf@gnu.org> <86pmf7utjp.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14720"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 15:36:47 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1og4Zq-0003f6-La for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50506 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1og4Zp-0000FQ-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1og4HJ-0003Xp-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55804) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1og4HI-0000Nh-NY; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:17:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Su1IXKLbmcrBwUTZyZfZfTSrOW6AlkTL9LXNT5s3CVg=; b=E8G6KvRCza/z De26KAYcHDL4DW6oVj6agTrm51UYCTIG+PWZP3HY/3VyRdxixl/XQMBC4cmlqY/3qnNHZY2/9AqZr oS2dcxDXKSPmZm2DDLdF8Dfuztlyznw8nr0NIMYr7S3ouxoTYt6C7giytWFTrtw3QBLDQjC68k9xI xbZ7yZEKXy402BhNk4lP7O1xg2eiQO3ZqznGAbDFNCvND6O6QQ83fmKw3KHLBPguk4DjH3yC3aCfi CMirqQQ4sV3SUySjpBl2Cz6rI2vPSGQlt8dH7h/AwT7Th63vR47tf5hGnq/TqnY8WyWNwSpN0aHX5 9UNjb6nnktumK+sSut6t/g==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2437 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1og4HA-0008Ci-7O; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:17:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:296965 Archived-At: > From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" > Cc: rms@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:57:45 -0400 > > 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.