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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com,  arash@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   joaotavora@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:20:35 +0000
> 
> > Under my proposal, the variable eglot-server-programs remains a
> > defvar, and contains the baseline list of the servers.  To customize
> > the list, users change the value of a separate user option, say,
> > eglot-user-server-programs.  This user option's value is nil by
> > default, and it allows users to specify both additions of servers to
> > the baseline value of eglot-server-programs and removal of servers
> > from that value.  
> 
> How would this look like?

I don't understand what you are asking here.  How what will look like?

> >                   The :set function of eglot-user-server-programs then
> > takes care of doing whatever is needed to make sure that the value of
> > eglot-server-programs is modified according to
> > eglot-user-server-programs's value when Eglot is started.
> 
> This I understand, but I don't see how this is preferable to a general
> solution that doesn't require explicit support for any user option.

What is the general solution you have in mind?  And what problems does
that general solution solve?