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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 13:12:03 +0300
> Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> On 07.10.2022 09:34, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We can (and will) make it easier for
> > users to understand what its features do, by labeling the menus and
> > describing in the doc strings and help-echo strings what the commands
> > and variables really do and what effect they have on Emacs.
> 
> Indeed we'll probably get the most bang for the buck by adding a menu 
> entry or two which could say something like
> 
>    Language Servers -> Connect
>    Language Servers -> Shutdown
> 
> without renaming the package or its commands.

Yes, something like that.

Bonus points for adding some relatively-thin layer which would allow
Eglot to be just one "backend" for language servers' services, so that
users could use others.  But that may be too much for Emacs 29.1.

> We could put them alongside EDE's and Semantic's menu entries. Or maybe 
> instead, given that EDE is not the recommended choice for "Project 
> Support" anymore, and we don't usually recommend Semantic to new users 
> either.

Or we could make the EDE/Semantic menus have a sub-menu, whereby the
user could select which kind of "support" they want.