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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Xref/tags/lsp possible bug
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:29:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5ef89a7-490e-d5de-7e91-eff6bac06fa5@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvee1l0wga.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On 25.04.2022 23:05, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs 
text editor wrote:
> You can still try to cobble up some kind of "list of top-levelish
> definitions" but it's inevitably a hack.

Yes, in most languages there will be at least some symbols that have no 
meaningful "global" names.

LSP could provide a table of all global symbols, though. And it kind of 
does, but not exactly. Not in a way that's useful to build an Emacs 
completion table from. But it will hopefully improve the spec further.

As for the reason why: my guess is that the protocol was designed as a 
common ground for a number of existing code assistance libraries/tools 
already developed within Microsoft, rather than something from a blank 
slate, and those are inevitably biased toward a particular UI.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-25 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-25 10:01 Xref/tags/lsp possible bug Alessandro Bertulli
2022-04-25 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-04-25 20:29   ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2022-04-25 21:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-26  1:41       ` Dmitry Gutov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-04-23 15:28 Alessandro Bertulli
2022-04-23 12:17 Alessandro Bertulli
2022-04-23 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-24 23:06   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-25  1:32 ` Dmitry Gutov

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