Re: Making `eglot-server-programs' a custom variable?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 21:45:59 +0000
> 
> > This is a project-level goal of the Emacs project, and as such is up
> > to the maintainers to set and pursue.  Even if the maintainers are
> > wrong, in your opinion.
> 
> eglot-server-programs grew formidably over the last 4 years, and I have
> no objections to keep growing it.  Being exhaustive is going to be
> reasonably hard, because so many servers will continue to appear.  Even
> faster than programming languages.  And some servers are just abandoned,
> which is another annoyance.  And we should not assume the user won't
> want to tweak to add flags or servers we don't know about.  That would
> contradicts my lengthy experience with the uses of this variable.
> 
> Anyway, I prefer to focus my limited time on other aspects of Eglot, but
> you're certainly not "wrong" if you make adding new servers a priority.

As long as you don't start objecting to adding more servers, there's
no contradiction between our goals.