Re: Making `eglot-server-programs' a custom variable?

["João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 9:35 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Users need to read the documentation of the servers they want to
> install anyway.  We cannot provide that in Emacs, in the same way we
> don't provide this information about other programs Emacs uses.

Yes, I agree.  We won't mention details like server's operating
systems in the manual, at least not in that section.  The only mentions to
servers so far are in the example of eglot-workspace-configurations, because
they its a fairly representative example, and no better one has been
submitted.
And we also mention, in the troubleshooting section, that clangd and pylsp
are
good servers to try to reproduce a bug report, because they're fairly easy
to install.

> > The addition would look like this:
> [...]
> Thanks, I'll let João comment on this.

The addition is fine.

But I disagree that we should endeavor to be exhaustive in that list
and think that tweaking the variable is a rare event.  Servers come and
go for many languages, it's a very volatile landscape.  And
eglot-server-programs is just a starter database of simple server
invocations that are more or less known to work out of the box.  It is
designed to be tweaked, passing command line arguments to servers,
putting in absolute paths for experiments, etc.

Maybe the variable could be autoloaded, but that probably has
some pitfalls I'm not seeing at the moment.

João

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