For most of my emacs configuration1, there normally isn’t very much to write about which isn’t immediately evident from my configuration s

Doom Emacs and Language Servers

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2021-07-20 16:00:11

For most of my emacs configuration1, there normally isn’t very much to write about which isn’t immediately evident from my configuration site. However, since my shift to a MacBook, I have needed to fine tune my existing lsp-mode default setup for TRAMP and this post will cover a little bit of that. Though most of the post is about doom-emacs, it is also applicable to vanilla emacs after porting the snippets over to use-package instead.

There are two primary methods of interfacing emacs to language servers, eglot and lsp-mode. Not for me to do a full comparison, but some thoughts of the top of my head were:

Note that the comparisons stated are neither fair nor particularly useful. I just need something to work quickly with my main programming languages at the moment. I went with eglot.

Usage was pretty sweet (after getting clang-tools for clangd), it can be activated by running eglot in any supported buffer, and it came with all the standard bells and whistles.