Excellent idea!

I frequently use Eclipse and, although I do always have an Emacs open, the idea of seamlessly using org-mode inside Eclipse is very attractive...


-- Bill


On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:44 PM TEC <tecosaur@gmail.com> wrote:

A little progress update.

https://github.com/tecosaur/org-lsp now exists.

I have no idea what I'm doing, so if anyone has feedback on the current
idea, that would be much appreciated.

TEC <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> From the Org standardisation effort the idea of using Emacs as the basis
> of an LSP server for Org has been mentioned a few times.
>
> I thought this deserved it's own thread so here it is :)
>
> I'm quite keen to investigate the viability of this idea.
> Some key questions that I think need addressing are:
> 1. How can we 'package' Emacs into an LSP client?
> 2. Assuming we use some language as the basis for the host how do  we
>    want to pick it? LSP library? Lisp? Are there any outstanding
>    contenders.
> 3. How much effort is involved? Is it worth it to try to make Org  more
>    approachable* (without Emacs)?
>
> Lastly, but perhaps even more crucially --- who would be interested in
> working on this? I certainly am, but this feels like something that
> would be more viable with a small working group.
>
> Who's interested?
>
> Timothy.
>
>
> * I can't help but think that this hypothetical LSP server may   serve as
>  a 'gateway drug' to Org in Emacs 😉