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From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Eglot, project.el, and python virtual environments
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:48:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E863E2A0-6A16-4D45-AE0C-E320D7D24BE1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsehfoav.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>



> On Nov 17, 2022, at 10:06 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> 
> Danny Freeman <danny@dfreeman.email> writes:
> 
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>> 
>>>>> project_root
>>>>> ├── .git
>>>>> ├── src
>>>>> │   └── python
>>>>> │       ├── VeryImportantLambda
>>>>> │       │   └── .venv
>>>>> │       ├── MoreImportance
>>>>> │       │   └── .venv
>>>>> │       ├── RunInCaseOfEmergency
>>>>> │       │   └── .venv
>> 
>> I just realized you posted information about the .venv files in your
>> original post and I completely overlooked that lol. 
>> 
>>> Thank you very much, that does help indeed! I started off down this path
>>> and had gotten as far as eglot-lsp-context. Then I realized I couldn't
>>> just return a directory, it had to be a project object, and that's when
>>> I decided someone else must have a better approach. But it's great to
>>> see all this laid out, and knowing about `(cons 'transient root)' is
>>> very helpful, as well.
>>> 
>>> I'll play around with this a bit. It seems like a not-outlandish
>>> situation, and I wonder if it might not be useful to provide some
>>> standardized method of helping Eglot find an alternate project.
>>> 
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Eric
>> 
>> Anyways yeah, I think I've heard about someone else running into this as
>> well. Maybe it was on the reddit emacs forum. Either way, I do not think
>> you are the first.
>> 
>> What might an extension for Eglot look like? Maybe a built in
>> `project-find-functions' implementation that does something similar
>> looking for a `.eglot-lsp-root` (or probably something configurable) as
>> a transient project root? I don't know if that would cause problems out
>> of the box for some people, but it seems safe.
> 
> That was my first thought: a file cookie that told Eglot to consider
> this directory a project root.
> 
> But I don't know enough about Eglot and its internals to be sure. I'm
> not even really sure what Eglot uses a project definition for: I guess
> to decide which buffers in a given major-mode should use the same
> invocation of a language server protocol? One process used in all those
> project buffers? Is that even how it groups things? I don't know.

AFAIK eglot uses project.el for finding projects.

> 
> The core issue in my case is that I need to be able to tell Eglot to use
> a separate language server executable for all python-mode buffers within
> a certain directory tree. Maybe there is a simpler way of doing that
> that doesn't require me to trick Eglot into thinking the project is
> smaller than it is. All a virtual environment does, fundamentally, is
> munge PATH so that Python-related executables are found locally, rather
> than system-wide. Maybe there's a relatively simple way to explicitly
> tell Eglot to do that.

You can add dir-local variables and set eglot-server-programs for each directory differently, each mapping python-mode to different server executables. (And also use .project.el cookies to limit the scope of the project.)

> 
> I think the approach I'm on now can probably be made to work, but it
> would be nice to know if there's a simpler way. I might spend a bit of
> time looking at Eglot's source, and open a bug report.
> 
> Thanks!
> Eric

Yuan


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-17 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-16 18:37 Eglot, project.el, and python virtual environments Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-16 22:24 ` Danny Freeman
2022-11-16 22:53   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-17 13:41     ` Danny Freeman
2022-11-17 18:06       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-17 18:48         ` Yuan Fu [this message]
2022-11-17 22:21       ` Tim Cross
2022-11-18  2:38         ` Phil Sainty
2022-11-18  7:43           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 13:55             ` Danny Freeman
2022-11-18 15:22               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 15:53                 ` Danny Freeman
2022-11-18 19:36               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-18 15:06             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-18 15:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 15:28                 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-19  1:12             ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-19  7:42               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-19 13:06                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-19 13:14                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 18:31   ` João Távora
2022-11-19  1:13     ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-19  1:56       ` João Távora
2022-11-19 15:23         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-19 19:17           ` Danny Freeman
2022-11-19 19:49             ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-19 21:22               ` Danny Freeman
2022-11-20  1:51                 ` João Távora
2022-11-20 15:36                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-20 20:35                     ` João Távora
2022-11-20 22:05                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-21 13:45                         ` João Távora
2022-11-22 15:48                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-22 21:12                             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-22 21:34                               ` João Távora
2022-11-22 22:00                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-22 23:23                                   ` João Távora
2022-11-23  0:03                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-23 13:57                                       ` Subprojects in project.el (Was: Eglot, project.el, and python virtual environments) João Távora
2022-11-23 20:33                                         ` João Távora
2022-11-24  2:49                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-24  8:42                                             ` João Távora
2022-11-24 22:17                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25 19:56                                                 ` Subprojects in project.el João Távora
2022-11-25 22:33                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  0:00                                                     ` João Távora
2022-11-26  1:57                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  9:23                                                         ` João Távora
2022-11-26 13:34                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26 19:36                                                             ` João Távora
2022-11-26  2:01                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  9:24                                                         ` João Távora
2022-11-24  2:51                                           ` Subprojects in project.el (Was: Eglot, project.el, and python virtual environments) Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-24  6:23                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-24  9:01                                             ` João Távora
2022-11-24 22:11                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25  7:30                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-25 17:24                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25 19:45                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-25 21:57                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25 23:55                                                       ` Subprojects in project.el João Távora
2022-11-28  0:41                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  7:26                                                       ` Subprojects in project.el (Was: Eglot, project.el, and python virtual environments) Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-02  1:32                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-12-02 14:16                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-02 15:08                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-12-02 15:37                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-12-02 15:44                                                               ` Subprojects in project.el Stefan Monnier
2022-12-02 23:26                                                                 ` João Távora
2022-12-06 14:36                                                           ` Subprojects in project.el (Was: Eglot, project.el, and python virtual environments) João Távora
2022-11-24  3:01                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-24  8:50                                           ` João Távora
2022-11-24 22:46                                             ` Tim Cross
2022-11-24 23:38                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25  7:07                                                 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-11-25 14:58                                                   ` Subprojects in project.el Stefan Monnier
2022-11-25 22:29                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  2:59                                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-26 12:30                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26 17:32                                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-27  0:25                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25 20:32                                                 ` João Távora
2022-11-28  4:10                                                 ` Subprojects in project.el (Was: Eglot, project.el, and python virtual environments) Tim Cross
2022-11-28 17:21                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-29  9:56                                                     ` Subprojects in project.el João Távora
2022-11-29 18:40                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-29 22:21                                                         ` João Távora
2022-11-30  0:39                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-30  0:54                                                             ` João Távora
2022-11-30  0:57                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-30  1:18                                                                 ` João Távora
2022-12-02 22:47                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2022-12-02 23:46                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-12-03  7:09                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-24 22:58                                             ` Subprojects in project.el (Was: Eglot, project.el, and python virtual environments) Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25  2:38                                               ` Subprojects in project.el Stefan Monnier
2022-11-25 20:23                                                 ` João Távora
2022-11-25 22:23                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25  7:42                                               ` Juri Linkov
2022-11-25 20:27                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25 23:47                                                   ` João Távora
2022-11-25 23:58                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  0:46                                                       ` João Távora
2022-11-26  2:07                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-25 20:16                                               ` João Távora
2022-11-25 22:44                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  0:37                                                   ` João Távora
2022-11-26  2:05                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  9:42                                                       ` João Távora
2022-11-26 12:38                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-29 10:03                                                           ` João Távora
2022-11-29 10:17                                                           ` João Távora
2022-11-29 19:07                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-29 22:52                                                               ` João Távora
2022-11-30  1:10                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-27 19:25                                                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-11-27 21:43                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-22 23:53                                 ` "Backend completion style" as a first-class library. Re: Eglot, project.el, and python virtual environments João Távora
2022-11-23  1:45                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-25 13:16                                     ` João Távora
2022-11-22 21:40                             ` João Távora
2022-11-22 22:13                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-22 23:33                                 ` João Távora
2022-11-21 20:58                     ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-11-23  3:37                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-20 16:37                   ` João Távora
2022-11-21  7:54                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-21 13:36                     ` João Távora
2022-11-21 15:41                       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-11-21 16:49                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-21 16:49                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-21 20:54                     ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-11-19 23:25           ` João Távora
2022-11-19 23:40             ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-16 23:18 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-17  1:14   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-17  6:47 ` North Year
2022-11-17 18:09   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-19 22:36 ` Stephen Leake

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