News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Show HN: Emacs Configuration Generator. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: Emacs Configuration Generator by binarybytes on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:16PM (#31085191)
The short answer is that LSP doesn't mean universal LSP. You still need to pick and choose which LSP servers you want to install, because they are language specific. There are dozens of them and there is no point to downloading a C++ LSP if you work in Typescript.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Emacs Configuration Generator by daptaq on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @01:08PM (#31085872)
That and LSP just provides the intelligence for Emacs. The rest (syntax highlighting, navigation, ...) is implemented via so called "major modes" [0], that integrate various generic functionality for a specific language, and may often go beyond what LSP can provide, e.g. implementing REPL support.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Emacs Configuration Generator by jonnycomputer on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:19PM (#31085239)
Thank you. That makes sense.
[ Parent | on HN ]