Re: Emacs as an Org LSP server

[TEC]

Hi Neil,

I’m going to quote you the readme from the linked github repo:

Allow the unwashed masses to use Org, without using Emacs, using Emacs.

Here’s the image from the readme

And here’s the first line from the first result of a google search for &ldquoLSP”:

The Language Server Protocol (LSP) defines the protocol used between an editor or IDE and a language server that provides language features like auto complete, go to definition, find all references etc.

That should give you an idea of the intent here.

All the best,
Timothy

From: Neil Jerram
Subject: Re: Emacs as an Org LSP server
To: TEC
Cc: "org-mode-email" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:41:05 +0800

Could you describe a use case?  Apologies if I missed this in earlier threads.

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 10:44, TEC <tecosaur@gmail.com> wrote:

A little progress update.

https://github.com/tecosaur/org-lsp now exists.

I have no idea what I'm doing, so if anyone has feedback on the current
idea, that would be much appreciated.

TEC <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> From the Org standardisation effort the idea of using Emacs as the basis
> of an LSP server for Org has been mentioned a few times.
>
> I thought this deserved it's own thread so here it is :)
>
> I'm quite keen to investigate the viability of this idea.
> Some key questions that I think need addressing are:
> 1. How can we 'package' Emacs into an LSP client?
> 2. Assuming we use some language as the basis for the host how do  we
>    want to pick it? LSP library? Lisp? Are there any outstanding
>    contenders.
> 3. How much effort is involved? Is it worth it to try to make Org  more
>    approachable* (without Emacs)?
>
> Lastly, but perhaps even more crucially --- who would be interested in
> working on this? I certainly am, but this feels like something that
> would be more viable with a small working group.
>
> Who's interested?
>
> Timothy.
>
>
> * I can't help but think that this hypothetical LSP server may   serve as
>  a 'gateway drug' to Org in Emacs 😉