From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias? Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:08:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83pmfdduix.fsf@gnu.org> <86wn9ji3ma.fsf@gmail.com> <86tu4lsnqk.fsf@gmail.com> <83ill0vzit.fsf@gnu.org> <86pmf7utjp.fsf@gmail.com> <83bkqqtnoa.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11556"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 07 00:08:43 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 1ogZ2o-0002pG-8I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:08:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50248 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogZ2n-00075q-Bj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:08:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogZ2B-00065n-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogZ2B-00034h-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:08:03 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=kX0MuM+Jq5wgfsSB0yC9uy2Yt9ZjoRPJYZ3bAkpLZQ0=; b=qLoQj4BHrcYx 5T4AkCzf1lS9Iz41+03qSh66gfddt0OU7JPIeNzyKb3mOpR6MNMJPbB8ax5ncn60G10nnEz3oIDQv rSzWUQnuYC3ASs+/sC7iRjiNVKvy1SWambmcV+l8DBC1fcMvk+Y1aN0y1UNg6dHT8zbbTS/xQdf4/ ASxUZydA2CXAl2KcSmsOvqTK2ro/goDrd1YFo7suUI5wmqCbiaOEWq3PhN53VQthm+sQJC4BkKfdE j107LEaO2mUSZCWKB5zstVotHvIsZ22sI5QWc6b/tW8oR+XMMNTPqtxcI8nCfzlwI+S5ETKnyWiuY aeZc/XtUG3DSmMg+E/b7Yg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogZ2A-0003Es-Oz; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:08:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83bkqqtnoa.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:17:25 +0300) 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:297129 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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. I agree. I would not suggest removing any of Eglot's functionality. I'd expect just the opposite -- that people would continue making a range of Emacs features make use of Eglot when that is useful. The name I proposed, "Parse Code", fits this generality. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)