Re: My perspective as a mid-level user on pros/cons of different editors

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 20.05.2020 17:31, João Távora wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 3:13 PM Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 20.05.2020 17:06, João Távora wrote:
>
> > 'C-h .' shows documentation for a function? Or diagnostics/errors?
>
> Maybe both. This is still under discussion.  Let's have your feedback
> there in the issueI linked to.

Okay. Continuing with the discussion on GitHub, then.

> > No diagnostics will ask you to refactor a method. To do a
> > rename/extract/override kind of action.
> >
> > That's simply a missing feature, I guess.
>
> No not entirely, I think. There's eglot-rename.  Yes another command.
> But the extract/override stuff is probably "code actions".  I'm not
> 100% sure how they work right now, I can check later.

Sounds good.

> But anyway, they could be supported by Flymake diagnostics. Or
> some other abstraction for supporting "interesting regions".

Not sure all "code actions" have some pre-defined regions.

> > Um, okay. If there is a splash screen, couldn't it say 'M-x
> > eglot-start'? Or do you dislike that name now, for some reason?
>
> I don't _dislike_ the name.  I chose a unique name because I felt
> "lsp" would be too intrusive on a technology (obviously, someone
> else thought otherwise...).
>
> It could, but "Eglot", as Stefan pointed out, sounds unnecessarily
> peculiar and foreign.

*shrug* I like it.

> Anyway, all this is putting the cart way ahead of the horse.

Indeed.