bug#59883: Eglot gopls failed to connect

[Stefan Kangas]

Johann Höchtl <johann.hoechtl@gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry, this bug has to be re-opened. I was confident that the described 
> "work-around" is
> stable, yet it's not. Eglot was working consistently yesterday just to find 
> it non-working today
> with the same errors.

Are you still seeing this?

> Am So., 11. Dez. 2022 um 14:24 Uhr schrieb Johann Höchtl 
> <johann.hoechtl@gmail.com>:
>
>  I found a solution. Quick: For some reason when opening a go file using 
> go-mode,
>  Emacs/eglot generates a "textDocument/didOpen" server message. Now the 
> correct
>  reaction of a LS upon such a message in a chase where the file actually did 
> not change
>  remains disputable:
>
>  https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50267
>  https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/16623
>
>  However, the gopls-team considered a "chatty" behavior of the language 
> server to be
>  better anyhow. To always send diagnostics is now the default, yet not 
> released as of
>  gopls 1.10.1
>
>  
> https://github.com/golang/tools/commit/ec743893cd01c9423aaae4513b092c4c4c06f0f4
>
>  https://groups.google.com/g/golang-checkins/c/tt8Ig_UsKtE
>
>  To use the yet unreleased feature from gopls@HEAD which works, follow
>
>  
> https://github.com/golang/tools/blob/master/gopls/doc/advanced.md#unstable-versions
>
>
>  This bug report may be closed, reported for reference.
>
>  Am So., 11. Dez. 2022 um 13:45 Uhr schrieb Johann Höchtl
>  <johann.hoechtl@gmail.com>:
>
>  I dug deeper into the problem:
>
>  * When I open a very small golang-project, eglot interconnects correctly 
> with gopls
>  * When I open a larger golang-project, eglot fails to communicate with 
> gopls. In fact, it
>  fails to direct gopls to load the project as gopls stays at a very small 
> memory
>  footprint.
>
>  When I uninstall go-mode OR find-file-literally *.go and later enable eglot, 
> gopls  is
>  correctly "directed" to load the project, because memory consumption is much
>  higher. In this case it also reports back to eglot "loading packages" and 
> "finished
>  loading packages".
>
>  Sidenote: However I cannot interact any further with the LS as eglot doens't 
> consider
>  any buffer as managed:
>
>  cl-no-applicable-method: No applicable method: eglot--managed-buffers, nil
>  eldoc error: (jsonrpc-error No current JSON-RPC connection 
> (jsonrpc-error-code .
>  32603) (jsonrpc-error-message . No current JSON-RPC connection))
>  mouse-minibuffer-check: Minibuffer window is not active
>
>  but I guess this is because the buffer has no mode eglot considers to be 
> supported.
>
>  Sidenote2: If I enable go-mode for this buffer (thus triggering eglot-ensure 
> in .emacs) ,
>  a second gopls process is spawned yet without communication between eglot and
>  gopls.