Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?

[Daniel Martín]

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi all, João,
>>
>> Now that we're getting closer to merging eglot, I think it is our last
>> chance to (re-)consider that "eglot" is not the ideal name.  It has some
>> charm, of course, but it is quite non-descriptive and it's hard (read:
>> impossible) to understand what it does based on the name alone.[1]
>>
>> As for names, lsp-mode would be the obvious choice, but some other
>> package has occupied that prefix (too bad).  I therefore propose
>> renaming it to elsp-mode and using the elsp-* prefix for it.
>>
>> At the very least, we should consider adding some alias, like
>> `start-lsp', and/or `lsp-start'.[2]
>>
>> Footnotes:
>> [1]  https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg02828.html
>>
>> [2]  https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg02818.html
>
> Right now under "Maining Large Programs" in the Emacs manual the closest
> package to Eglot is EDE (Emacs Development Environment), so perhaps the
> name could be EDE-LSP or something like that.

After a second look, perhaps Semantic is a closer match (under "Editing
Programs"), so the name could be Semantic-LSP.