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Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers
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Po Lu |
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Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:08:52 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
ndame <address@hidden> writes:
> VSCode does this well. It provides a great out of box experience, most
> things work out of the box, or just a plugin install away. In case of
> LSP it may also download and install an LSP server, not just a client.
IIRC, lsp-mode has good support for automagically downloading popular
LSP servers. Perhaps that could be added to eglot?
> I don't think it's realistic for Emacs to compete with that. There are
> the legal issues, for example, which I assume prevent installing
> Non-GNU binaries from the net and not all LSP servers have GNU license
> AFAIK.
There are legal issues with shipping code /with/ Emacs that has not been
copyright assigned to the FSF. I don't think anyone would mind if a
package shipped with Emacs automatically downloaded and installed a
free language server. (and I haven't actually seen any non-free language
servers.)
If memory serves, someone proposed finding promising new packages and
asking the authors about including it inside Emacs (or ELPA). I find
that would also be a nice idea.
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, ndame, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers,
Po Lu <=
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Theodor Thornhill, 2020/04/21
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/22
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Theodor Thornhill, 2020/04/22
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/22
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/22
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/04/22
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/22
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/23