Re: Emacs as an Org LSP server

[TEC]

Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> writes:

> LSP is also REST based, so your editor how has to talk to a web
> *server* over a network. This could be central, and not just on your
> machine. How would you know in an update that didn't happen?

This just ... isn't right.
It's not even REST based, it's using JSON-RPC, and most servers use
stdout + stdin. I'm afraid this simply isn't accurate.


I'm going to ignore the genetic fallacy re: Microsoft.

> I'm not interested in spending any time improving an LSP for Org which
> would give non-free editors additional functionality with Org files.

Because I feel that the rest of the points have been addressed, I'll
just cover this. Looking at https://langserver.org/, the list of current
editors that have LSP clients is:

- Acme
- PROPRIETRY! C++ Builder
- PROPRIETRY! Delphi
- Eclipse
- Eclipse Che
- Emacs (x2)
- GNATStudio
- PROPRIETRY! IntelliJ
- Kakoune
- Kate
- Moonshine IDE
- Oni
- VSCode
- NeoVim (x5)
- PROPRIETRY! Sublime Text 3
- Atom
- CodeMirror
- Theia
- Spyder IDE
- Qt Creator
- Ycmd
- Brackets
- JupyterLab

Note that the majority of the above, (and if considering usage: vast
majority), are *free*.

If your issue is that there is the potential for some non-free
applications to also benefit from this ... the logical conclusion is
that we should stop using the GPL licence, because it allows *anyone*
(including non-free applications) to benefit --- thus inherently making
the work itself /less/ free 😑.

--
Timothy.