Re: PL support

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09.05.2020 19:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 18:53:10 +0300
> >
> > Cannot enable what?
>
> Font-lock and indentation based on those capabilities, for one.

Neither is part of the LSP protocol, so Eglot doesn't do this (yet).

LSP at the moment provides more "advances" features: code completion, 
navigation and documentation. In short, it's a replacement for etags and 
the manual. For all supported languages.

For these two features in particular, we might want to pick a TreeSitter 
based solution anyway, because that one at least could allow us to 
continue writing grammars in Emacs, instead of entirely relying on 
external programs to keep up-to-date and complete grammars.

> > Eglot is in ELPA. Have you tried it?
>
> No.  Not enough time, sorry.

It shouldn't take a lot of time. There's no hurry, though.

> > None of these discussions say "oh, if only Eglot was in the core instead
> > of GNU ELPA, that would solve my problems". I haven't seen a single
> > opinion like that.
>
> I said nothing about moving Eglot to the core.  It was João, not
> myself.  I'd be happy if we could have these capabilities that
> depended on Eglot (or any other package, really) being installed.  We
> could figure out the rest later.

Eglot is as feature-rich now when installed as a package as it could be, 
I think. And it's worth taking a look.