A language server protocol client for the vis editor.

vis-lspc currently supports:

• textDocument/completion
• textDocument/declaration
• textDocument/definition
• textDocument/references
• textDocument/typeDefinition
• textDocument/implementation
• textDocument/hover
• textDocument/rename
• [Diagnostics]

Everything else.

To my knowledge there is currently no good way to detect file changes via the Lua API. But this is essential to support Text Synchronization which is required by the LSP protocol.

A dirty workaround we currently use is to send the whole file content in a textDocument/didChange method call before calling any other method. If someone can come up with an idea how to solve this I would appreciate contributions.

We never send any client capabilities.

Communicating with language-servers via other channels than stdin/stdout.

Currently only clangd and pyls are configured by default and somewhat tested.

• vis must be compiled with the Lua communicate API.
• The language server you want to use. Microsoft's list of implementations
• Optional: the json implementation of your choice
  • must be usable by calling require('json')
  • must provide json.encode, json.decode

1. Clone this repository into your vis plugins directory
2. Load the plugin in your visrc.lua with require('plugins/vis-lspc')

vis-lspc is in a early state, but if you are brave there are some default key bindings:

Normal mode:
<F2> - start a language server for win.syntax
<F3> - open win.file with a running language server
<C-]> | <gd> - jump to the definition of the symbol under the main cursor
<gD> - jump to declaration
<gd> - jump to definition
<gi> - jump to implementation
<gr> - show references
< D> - jump to type definition
<C-t> - go back in the jump history
< e> - show diagnostics of current line
<K> - hover over current position
Normal and Insert mode:
<C- > - get completions

# language-server management:
lspc-start-server [syntax] - start a language server for syntax or win.syntax
lspc-stop-server [syntax] - stop the language server for syntax or win.syntax

# file registration:
lspc-open - register the file in the current window
lspc-close - unregister the file in the current window

# navigation commands (they all operate on the symbol under the main cursor):
lspc-completion - syntax completion
lspc-references [e | vsplit | hsplit] - select and open a reference
lspc-declaration [e | vsplit | hsplit] - select and open a declaration
lspc-definition [e | vsplit | hsplit] - open the definition
lspc-typeDeclaration [e | vsplit | hsplit] - select and open a type declaration
lspc-implementation [e | vsplit | hsplit] - I actually have no idea what this does

lspc-back - navigate back in the goto history

# workspace edits
lspc-rename <new name> - rename the identifier under the cursor to <new name>

# development support
lspc-hover - hover over the current line
lspc-show-diagnostics - show the available diagnostics of the current line

The module table returned by require('plugins/vis-lspc') can be use to configure some aspects of vis-lspc.

Available fields are:

• name = 'vis-lspc' - the name vis-lspc introduces itself to a language server
• logging = false - enable logging only useful for debugging vis-lspc
• log_file = nil - nil, filename or function returning a filename
  • If log_file is nil vis-lspc will create a new file in $XDG_DATA_HOME/vis-lspc
• autostart = true - try to start a language server in WIN_OPEN
• menu_cmd = 'fzf' or 'vis-menu' - program to prompt for user choices
• confirm_cmd = 'vis-menu' - program to prompt for user confirmation
• ls_map - a table mapping vis syntax names to language server configurations
• highlight_diagnostics = false - highlight available diagnostics
• diagnostic_style = 'back:#e3514f' - style used to highlight diagnostics

If vis-lspc has no language server configuration for your desired language or server you have to create a language server configuration and insert it into the ls_map table. Please have a look at #2 and share your configuration with everyone else.

A language server configuration is a Lua table containing a name field which is used to manage the language server. And a cmd field which is used to start the language server.

Note: the language server must communicate with vis-lspc via stdio. Your language server probably supports stdio but maybe requires a special command line flag.

Example: The language server configuration for clangd and its entries in ls_map

-- clangd language server configuration
local clangd = {name = 'clangd', cmd = 'clangd'}

-- map of known language servers per syntax
lspc.ls_map = {cpp = clangd, ansi_c = clangd}

All code except otherwise noted is licensed under the term of GPL-3. See the LICENSE file for more details. Our fallback json implementation in json.lua is NOT licensed under GPL-3. It is taken from here and is put into public domain by Tyler Neylon.