Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, Jun 04 2021, Jim Porter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 12:53 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Why does it do that?  Does the LSP server have to access the file
>> itself?  We have all the contents of that file locally in a buffer, so
>> we could hand it to LSP locally.
>
> I'm not an expert on the internals of LSP servers, but it's my
> understanding that for a language server like clangd, it needs access
> not just to the current file, but the entire source tree[1].

And speaking from my experience with lsp-mode (not eglot) and Python, it needs
access to the entire virtual env so it can provide type information and
completions for built-in Python packages and for 3rd-party packages that you use
your code.


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Joost Kremers
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