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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07.10.2022 14:27, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

One or two hooks, shouldn't be hard. But there's no hurry indeed.

> > 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.

That depends on whether we want the menus to present an "intro" to Emacs 
functionality that doesn't require much reading to pick the right choice.

IMHO that can be the best goal for the menu bar. But you might have a 
different understanding of its role.