Re: New release of LSP server; LSP clients for Emacs and VSCodium available

[Ricardo G. Herdt]

Cool, many thanks Aleix! If I update the server, do I have to do 
something in order to it get it updated on homebrew, like adding some 
tag? Or you simply track the current master branch?

Ricardo

> Am 08.08.2022 01:42 schrieb Aleix Conchillo Flaqué:
> > Fantastic, thank you! I just packaged both scheme-json-rpc (as
> > guile-json-rpc) and scheme-lsp-server (as guile-lsp-server) for
> > homebrew-guile (https://github.com/aconchillo/homebrew-guile [5]).
> > Tests and executable seem to work (or not fail) but I haven't really
> > tried it yet. The plan is to make it easy for everyone on macOS to
> > hack on Guile using either Emacs or VSCode.
> >
> > Aleix
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 1:08 PM Ricardo G. Herdt <r.herdt@posteo.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Short update:
> > >
> > > there was a problem concerning automatic installation of server,
> > > and
> > > some other bugs. In case you tried to install the server or the
> > > clients
> > > and it didn't work properly, please try out the new versions
> > > available.
> > >
> > > Ricardo
> > >
> > > Am 04.08.2022 00:32 schrieb Ricardo G. Herdt:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I want to announce some releases related to LSP support for
> > > Scheme,
> > > > focusing on Guile.
> > > >
> > > > * scheme-lsp-server 0.1.3
> > > >
> > > > Besides bug fixes, here what's new:
> > > >
> > > > - scheme-lsp-server now selectively uses geiser code when doable.
> > > This
> > > > is especially the case for Guile. The goal is to encourage myself
> > > and
> > > > contributors to help improving Geiser, and directly benefit of
> > > its
> > > > development. Obviously only Scheme code is reused.
> > > >
> > > > - previously scheme-lsp-server assumed an LSP client would fire
> > > up a
> > > > REPL and let the user interact with it, showing LSP-related infos
> > > > depending on things the user actively loaded. This is not the way
> > > most
> > > > LSP-based tools expect an LSP-server to work though, and has some
> > > > downsides:
> > > >
> > > > + implementing a client is not as trivial as it should be,
> > > since
> > > > the developer has to figure out a way to integrate a REPL into
> > > the
> > > > IDE/editor, and send commands to it to "guide" the LSP server.
> > > > + developers used to other LSP-based tools can be surprised to
> > > see
> > > > that they have to actively load stuff in order to get meaningful
> > > > feedback from the IDE.
> > > >
> > > > Therefore I did a major design change: scheme-lsp-server now does
> > > it's
> > > > best to automatically compile/import files opened by the user
> > > > (including dependencies). This makes the task of implementing an
> > > LSP
> > > > client much easier: just launch guile-lsp-server and call it a
> > > day. I
> > > > added some notes regarding creating new LSP clients for other
> > > > editors/IDE's:
> > https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/scheme-lsp-server#creating-an-lsp-client
> > > [1]
> > > > One important note: for now, the LSP server needs to "see"
> > > library
> > > > definitions in order to compile and import needed libraries. See
> > https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/scheme-lsp-server/#user-content-known-issues
> > > [2].
> > > > * emacs-lsp-scheme 0.1.0 (available on MELPA)
> > > >
> > > > The first versions of emacs-lsp-scheme had a custom REPL (based
> > > on
> > > > Emacs' built-in scheme support) that was connected to the LSP
> > > server.
> > > > Following the changes to the LSP server, I decoupled the
> > > > emacs-lsp-scheme from the REPL. This seems to be a regression at
> > > > first, but the idea is that one can simply use "run-scheme" to
> > > launch
> > > > a REPL, and this does not interfere with the LSP server. For
> > > deeper
> > > > integration of Guile and Emacs, Geiser is still the way to go.
> > > > See the README file for instructions on how to configure it:
> > > > https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/emacs-lsp-scheme [3]
> > > >
> > > > * vscode-scheme-lsp 0.2.1 (available for VSCodium on open-vsx)
> > > >
> > > > Following the same ideas of emacs-lsp-scheme, this extension now
> > > > focuses on basically providing LSP support. The user can install
> > > other
> > > > extensions to get syntax highlighting and an integrated REPL.
> > > > Here the code: https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/vscode-scheme-lsp
> > > [4].
> > > > I only tested all this on Debian buster. Please let me know if
> > > you
> > > > experience any trouble installing/using it.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Ricardo G. Herdt
> >
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] 
> > https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/scheme-lsp-server#creating-an-lsp-client
> > [2] 
> > https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/scheme-lsp-server/#user-content-known-issues
> > [3] https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/emacs-lsp-scheme
> > [4] https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/vscode-scheme-lsp
> > [5] https://github.com/aconchillo/homebrew-guile