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: Elisp LSP Server Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:27:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <16338bdc2497fc51c6fb6d54ab370bfb@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <87ee99dv34.fsf@gmail.com> <07cf50ddddb5a9556aa94201a7ac88c9@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <87r1d0562u.fsf@yahoo.com> <87r1cz7qcd.fsf@posteo.net> <87bl4367av.fsf@yahoo.com> <87fstf7kz4.fsf@posteo.net> <87ee8xq25q.fsf@posteo.net> 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="2572"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 08 00:31:24 2021 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 1mYbvA-0000Y4-Ni for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:31:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38196 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYbv8-0007hO-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYbrS-0001Ma-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:27:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYbrR-0002tV-W3; Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:27:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYbrO-0002mA-Gx; Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:27:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ee8xq25q.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:22:25 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:276526 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. ]]] > The difference between Emacs (at least Eglot) and other LSP > implementations, is that the latter can download servers automatically. > This is done without regard to the license, as projects like VSCode are > not focused on software freedom. Yes, that's what we must expect from them. But what they do does not matter to us as long as we can avoid doing likewise. > Replicating this for Emacs seems hard to do, but it is probably the > wrong approach. My guess would be that most people wouldn't want Emacs > in a browser. A solution could be to provide a script or command that > automatically clones a repository to a temporary directory and opens > Emacs (possibly by making use of emacsclient). The tricky part would be > to integrate this into a web browser, but my guess would be that this > could be done by use of a browser extension. This would recognize the > website, extract the git repository and start the script. It sounds like a reasonable thing to do by writing a free extension. -- 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)