Making Emacs popular again

Posted May 7, 2020 4:41 UTC (Thu) by kastauyra (subscriber, #110760)
In reply to: Making Emacs popular again by jgg
Parent article: Making Emacs popular again

But Emacs has LSP support too, in lsp-mode / eglot packages, which, feature-wise, is as complete as VSCode one.

For me, LSP is what makes Emacs viable in 2020. The C++ tooling state before LSP was pretty sad - cc-mode using regexps to "parse" C++ can get you only so far, and I was never able to get CEDET to work.

Making Emacs popular again

Posted May 7, 2020 23:48 UTC (Thu) by jgg (subscriber, #55211) [Link]

I haven't tried it, so I can't say.

But this is kind of my point - *emacs* is not relevant any more because major stuff like really good LSP support is just not part of the main project's concern.

Now I want to find time to try vsc-clangd..

RE: lsp, C++ (and rtags) (Making Emacs popular again)

Posted May 14, 2020 13:01 UTC (Thu) by dfszb (guest, #138896) [Link]

Just for the record, we had rtags (https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags) before lsp-mode (and the ccls backend), and rtags did and still does a great job, the symbol usage lookup is still better imho than those offered by lsp-mode backends (ccls or clangd). I used it on several projects, from small to fairly large (500k sloc), with heavy c++ / boost usage. The lsp-mode tools offer much nicer UI and very flexible completion, they can also slow down emacs to be like Visual Studio.