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diff --git a/book/src/languages.md b/book/src/languages.md index 3328c610..3f244566 100644 --- a/book/src/languages.md +++ b/book/src/languages.md @@ -140,10 +140,14 @@ config = { format = { "semicolons" = "insert", "insertSpaceBeforeFunctionParenth ### Configuring Language Servers for a language The `language-servers` attribute in a language tells helix which language servers are used for this language. + They have to be defined in the `[language-server]` table as described in the previous section. + Different languages can use the same language server instance, e.g. `typescript-language-server` is used for javascript, jsx, tsx and typescript by default. + In case multiple language servers are specified in the `language-servers` attribute of a `language`, it's often useful to only enable/disable certain language-server features for these language servers. + For example `efm-lsp-prettier` of the previous example is used only with a formatting command `prettier`, so everything else should be handled by the `typescript-language-server` (which is configured by default) The language configuration for typescript could look like this: @@ -162,12 +166,12 @@ name = "typescript" language-servers = [ { name = "typescript-language-server", except-features = [ "format" ] }, "efm-lsp-prettier" ] ``` -Each requested LSP feature is priorized in the order of the `language-servers` array. +Each requested LSP feature is prioritized in the order of the `language-servers` array. For example the first `goto-definition` supported language server (in this case `typescript-language-server`) will be taken for the relevant LSP request (command `goto_definition`). If no `except-features` or `only-features` is given all features for the language server are enabled. If a language server itself doesn't support a feature the next language server array entry will be tried (and so on). -The list of supported features are: +The list of supported features is: - `format` - `goto-definition` |