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


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:08:02 -0400

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  > > To be fair, eglot does a bit more than just being a LSP client.  It
  > > enables lots of extra fluff.  E.g., it popups up a docstring in the
  > > mini-buffer using eldoc, it highlights broke code using flymake,
  > > enables completion using company-mode if that is used, etc -- that is
  > > quite a bit more than just a simple client interface.

  > It provides LSP client services to several Emacs features, yes.
  > Having a client without this glue would be much less useful, because
  > it would mean we'd need to develop that ourselves.

I agree.  I would not suggest removing any of Eglot's functionality.
I'd expect just the opposite -- that people would continue making 
a range of Emacs features make use of Eglot when that is useful.

The name I proposed, "Parse Code", fits this generality.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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