Re: Elisp LSP Server

[Joost Kremers]

On Wed, Oct 13 2021, Tim Cross wrote:
> just because Elisp can be used as a
> general purpose programming language doesn't mean it should be).

Why not? In fact, it arguably already is. You can't really say that something
like Gnus is just an Emacs extension. I think it's more usefully thought of as a
program that just happens to run on the Elisp VM that is Emacs. :-)

> - No idea what language to use or how to implement the server. It has
> been suggested elisp would be the obvious choice, but I don't see how
> you can implement elisp outside Emacs without pretty much implementing
> most of emacs.

Why not just use Emacs? Run an Emacs daemon process (properly isolated, so it
doesn't interfere with the user's Emacs process), feed it the Elisp code and
have it return the analytics that LSP requires. That doesn't sound too 
difficult.


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Joost Kremers
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