Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Po Lu]

Theodor Thornhill <address@hidden> writes:

> Yeah. However, there is one thing with this approach. I took a look at
> the eglot-fsharp.el (part of fsharp-mode, which is GPL v3
> btw). Downloading of the particular server seems to be almost no issue
> at all. Configuring servers, though, is an issue. Should it be eglots
> responsibility to do that, or individual language modes? Consider at
> some point in the future, when Eglot is as integrated with emacs as say,
> syntax highlighting or indenting - should *-mode.el configure its own
> lsp config? I'm just a little bit concerned this will cause maintainers
> of third party lang-modes not to really care. At least if lsp-mode
> already provides lsp-*.el preconfigured anyways.

Yeah, perhaps we could have a centralized database of language servers
and their configurations for Eglot?  That would be nice.