On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Ryan Betts <rbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Curious if nvim intends to support the MS / Eclipse Che language server > protocol ( > https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/wiki/Protocol-Implementations.) > > If there is a separate discussion on this I can't find, please just direct > me to it. I found https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/4982 but nothing > more detailed. > > I know little about mvim's structure. Would supporting the language protocol > be a large effort, a translation layer in front of an existing different > protocol, or something else? Where should I look to learn more?
The usual answer for these types of questions asking about "support for X" is that 1. We want to make it "possible and reliable" for external plugins to implement things like this. 2. We want to improve the "out of the box" experience where possible. But those opportunities are difficult to analyze and recognize. "Implementing the language server protocol" wouldn't make sense in the Nvim core. But it could make sense to provide a user interface, such as a standard set of keybindings, or hooks, or commands, that can be served by backends like the language server protocol, or YouCompleteMe, or SLIME, etc. Improving the extensibility of completion would help things like this. Adding the ability for arbitrary dialogs would help. Etc, etc. Help in designing, and defining/outlining a concrete goal, and of course coding, would be welcome. Most people are focused on other things currently. --- Justin M. Keyes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neovim" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neovim+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
