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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>, João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 58894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58894: Comments on Eglot manual
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:51:51 +0200

> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 12:05:27 +0100
> 
> Find below some comments on the "Customizing Eglot" section of the manual:
> 
> > [...] via the variable ‘eglot-workspace-configuration’.  Eglot sends the
> > portion of the settings contained in this variable to each server for
> > which such settings were defined in the variable.
> 
> This is not true.  The entire `eglot-workspace-configuration' is sent to
> the server; presumably, severs ignore everything which is not under its
> own prefix, but that's just a convention.
> 
> > JSON values ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘null’ and ‘{}’ are represented by the
> > Lisp values ‘t’, ‘:json-false’, ‘nil’, and ‘eglot-{}’, respectively.
> 
> Unless something has been renamed recently, it's `eglot--{}', not
> `eglot-{}'.
> 
> >    Alternatively, the same configuration could be defined as follows:
> > 
> >      ((nil
> >        . ((eglot-workspace-configuration
> >            . (:pylsp (:plugins (:jedi_completion (:include_params t
> >                                                   :fuzzy t)
> >                                 :pylint (:enabled :json-false)))
> >               :gopls (:usePlaceholders t))))))
> 
> This is more or less obvious, if you know how dir-local variables work.
> So I would suggest mentioning a different configuration method:
> 
> Alternatively, you can set a default workspace configuration globally by
> adding the following to your init file:
> 
>        (setq-default
>          eglot-workspace-configuration
>          '(:pylsp (:plugins (:jedi_completion (:include_params t
>                                                :fuzzy t)
>                              :pylint (:enabled :json-false)))
>            :gopls (:usePlaceholders t))
> 
> 
> 
> >    This is an equivalent setup which sets the value for all the
> > major-modes inside the project; Eglot will use for each server only the
> > section of the parameters intended for that server.
> 
> Again, this is not true.  Rather, each sever will presumably ignore any
> settings not under its own "namespace".

João, any comments?

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