Niels Thykier on Language Server (LSP)
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Niels Thykier: Expanding on the Language Server (LSP) support for debian/control
I have spent some more time on improving my language server for debian/control. Today, I managed to provide the following features: [...]
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Language Server (LSP) support for debian/control
About a month ago, Otto Kekäläinen asked for editor extensions for debian related files on the debian-devel mailing list. In that thread, I concluded that what we were missing was a "Language Server" (LSP) for our packaging files.
Last week, I started a prototype for such a LSP for the debian/control file as a starting point based on the pygls library. The initial prototype worked and I could do very basic diagnostics plus completion suggestion for field names.