Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?

[Christopher M. Miles]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all, João,
>
> Now that we're getting closer to merging eglot, I think it is our last
> chance to (re-)consider that "eglot" is not the ideal name.  It has some
> charm, of course, but it is quite non-descriptive and it's hard (read:
> impossible) to understand what it does based on the name alone.[1]
>
> As for names, lsp-mode would be the obvious choice, but some other
> package has occupied that prefix (too bad).  I therefore propose
> renaming it to elsp-mode and using the elsp-* prefix for it.
>

I agree, eglot really is not a good obvious name for understand what it does.

> At the very least, we should consider adding some alias, like
> `start-lsp', and/or `lsp-start'.[2]
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg02828.html
>
> [2]  https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg02818.html


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