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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09.10.2022 17:45, Felician Nemeth wrote:
> > > > LSP syntax highlighting is a new-ish thing, and apparently isn't
> > > > supported by Eglot.
> > > True, but there is a pending patch by Akib Azmain Turja that adds this
> > > very feature to Eglot.  Akib hopes to start the copyright process soon.
> > > https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/pull/839
> > Do you expect it to have advantages compared to using TreeSitter?
> I'm not very familiar with TreeSitter, but I think TreeSitter would for
> all practical cases provide a faster/simpler solution to font-locking.
>
> (TreeSitter uses an already defined grammar, whereas an LSP server could
> potentially take into account dynamic information.  I've reimplemented
> the hangman game as an LSP server, and there the color of a word depends
> on its location within the file.  The color of the hanged man could also
> depend on the number of remaining guesses.)

That's my understanding of it as well.

I suppose Eglot could provide some extra highlighting (e.g. for defined 
classes, or methods, at callsites), but to get that information, the 
language has to scan the full project first (or a significant part, at 
least).

That would mean the fontification would need to be delayed 
significantly, or it would have the "blinking" effect we recently saw 
discussed (and complained about) with CC Mode.