Does the LSP client for Visual Studio support Markdown?

[HJLebbink]

I'm building a visual studio extension and a LSP; it is clear what is specified in the LSP specs, but it is not clear what is implemented in Microsoft.VisualStudio.LanguageServer.Protocol.Extensions 17.2.8.

See my same question here and on SO.

Question: Is Markdown implemented (in VS, for hover), and if it is, how to enable it. Please see what I have tried in the SO question.

[dbaeumer]

@HJLebbink you need to ask the to the maintainers of the VS LSP client. I don't know which feature set they are currently supporting.

[henkjan-sneller]

Great. 'their' website is https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/language-server-protocol and when you ask on that forum, they point to you guys. So who should I ask? There is AFAICT no repo with the client code (that could have some pointers).

[dbaeumer]

@henkjan-sneller that is strange from their end. Since I don't maintain their client implementation I can't comment on what they support. The spec actually requires them to support markdown since it is not optional in some requests.

[HJLebbink]

@dbaeumer thank you for the response, Could you help me navigate the Microsoft organization. Who could I ask to help me out (See here for an overview what I've tried).

[dbaeumer]

@MariaSolOs do you know an official channel were users can ask questions about the LSP client in VS?

[MariaSolOs]

@dbaeumer great question. I think that https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/home and https://github.com/microsoft/VSExtensibility would be good places for these kind of issues.

[dbaeumer]

Thanks @MariaSolOs

[HJLebbink]

Yes, thanx, @dbaeumer & @MariaSolOs; you triggered somebody to come up with a proper answer on SO!