LSP in KDevelop

[Aleix Pol]

Really cool, definitely needed!

Aleix

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 10:08 PM Sven Brauch <mail at svenbrauch.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> (CCing kwrite-devel, see last paragraph why)
>
> at Akademy, I had a look at integrating Kate's LSP plugin [1].
>
> I think it's a good idea to do this because it gives us kinda-good
> support for lots of languages which people have come to expect these
> days, and especially provides a plausible path for phasing out our qmljs
> plugin -- I have no idea how that would be fixable to work with current
> qml otherwise, given our manpower constraints.
>
> In the MR, I for now only did the absolutely-required part of the
> integration, i.e.
>
>   - fixed support for Kate's toolview API
>   - added support for showing config pages from kate plugins in our
> config dialog
>   - added and invoked API to disable the C++, Python, and PHP LSP servers
>   - integrated the LSP meta diagnostics ("failed to start server" etc)
> into a messages toolview of ours so people can see why things don't work
>
> It works kinda fine, what is lacking is that it has its own outline and
> diagnostics views, and doesn't integrate into our quickopen. Especially
> the latter isn't so nice.
>
> I'll have a look at how I can integrate this better. Since the data is
> structurally not super complicated, I'm considering not exporting a C++
> interface (with BIC problems and all) but instead just adding a few
> signals and Q_INVOKABLES to the LSP plugin object which return variant
> maps and item models. I hope this is sufficient and it should be doable
> with minimum impact on the kate side.
>
> If you have major doubts about all of this, let me know.
>
> All the best,
> Sven
>
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> [1] https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/merge_requests/669