bug#61726: [PATCH] Eglot: Support positionEncoding capability

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 18:55, João Távora wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 6:08 PM Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lastly, I used 'line-beginning-position' naively in the 2 new function
>> because there are at least 4 other pre-existing naive uses in eglot.el.
>> This refinement deserves a patch of its own, probably using something on
>> the lines of
>>
>>   (defalias eglot--pos-bol (if (fboundp 'pos-bol) 'pos-bol ...))
>
> This is also a good idea.

Actually, it might be better to use the compat library.  I'm copying
Daniel to ask if that is possible/recommended for "core" packages.  I
imagine adding compat to the Package-Requires and calling

  (require 'compat nil 'no-error)

would work?