bug#67463: 30.0.50; Eglot may manage js-json-mode buffers with wrong server

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Pengji Zhang <kunhtkun@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 20:32:39 -0500
> Cc: 67463@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> Hi João,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 3:51 PM João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Nope this doesn't work.  Even the slightly more involved patch after
> > my sig  doesn't work, and it correctly reports the :languageId as "json"
> >
> > So I think the best courses of action are 3 and 4, in that order.
> >
> 
> I also think option 3 could be the best. JSON is indeed a subset of
> JavaScript but that does not mean valid JSON files are also valid
> JavaScript files. For instance, a bare object literal '{"a": 10}' is
> not accepted by perhaps all JavaScript runtimes because it is parsed
> as a block of statements. That is also why we get those invalid errors
> in the example.
> 
> > Another workaround is to first start M-x eglot in some json file
> > in your project.  If you have one of:
> >
> > . ,(eglot-alternatives '(("vscode-json-language-server" "--stdio")
> >                          ("vscode-json-languageserver" "--stdio")
> >                          ("json-languageserver" "--stdio"))))
> >
> > installed, then these json-specific servers should start to manage
> > js-json-mode files in your project.  If afterwards you start M-x
> > eglot in a plain js file, that server won't be (erroneously) used
> > to manage JSON files.
> >
> 
> Thanks! This workaround indeed works, even though it is a bit tedious
> (and I honestly do not quite need a language server for JSON).

So should we now close this bug?  Or is there something left to do
here?