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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by G3rn0ti on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:29AM (#37393030)
You don’t understand how Emacs works. It is not supposed to be an IDE from the get-go. But there are extensions that together can turn it into one. For whatever language you program with.
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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by billfruit on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:39PM (#37400777)
I understand that, my point was that the LSP server which is required for code completion to work is not built in/packaged together with Emacs.
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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by G3rn0ti on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:04AM (#37401507)
There are hundreds of language servers out there. Even VScode does not ship all of those. Emacs‘ LSP client „lsp-mode“ tries to download them for you if possible. For example, in case of JavaScript and TypeScript you don’t have to provide it yourself.
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