Re: Elisp LSP Server

[Po Lu]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Ag Ibragimov <agzam.ibragimov@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Another reason: VSCode. The damn thing is spreading like a
>>> disease. And now it's even possible to browse code on GitHub, in a
>>> browser, by simply pressing <.> (the dot).  I would love to be able to
>>> comfortably browse through elisp code without having to clone it
>>> locally, but none of the existing VSCode Lisp plugins are any good.
>>> For example, there's no equivalent of imenu for Lisp files. You can't
>>> jump to a given function.
>>
>> Isn't the code behind that particular feature proprietary?
>
> In what sense? GitHub is inherently proprietary, so yes, but what
> about this specific feature is different.

I think it is dangerous for Emacs to "integrate" with such proprietary
software.  It would make people gravitate towards that software.