Starting forever

[amacfie]

If the server just shows "starting" and never changes and the Traces and Logs windows are empty what does that mean?

[angelozerr]

Sometimes it means that the command which statts the language server is not correct.

I know it is not perfect and we should improve that by stopping the server and showing an error message.

Which language server you are trying to start? With which command?

[amacfie]

Thanks for the response. I was trying to start the erg language server with the erg server command.

[angelozerr]

I suggest that you open a terminal and you type your command to see if you have no errors.

[amacfie]

No errors

[amacfie-tc]

It works in Neovim with the command :lua =vim.lsp.start({name='erg', cmd={'erg', 'server'}})

[angelozerr]

@amacfie if you can:

• give me some explanation / links how to install the erg server
• you export your command with LSP4IJ and attach the zip in this issue

I could try it.

[amacfie-tc]

Thanks for the response.

Installation: I use the Nix package but you can also use cargo install erg --features els.

The export:
lsp4ij-export20240916.zip

[amacfie-tc]

(You may need Python 3 installed as well)

[angelozerr]

@amacfie youhave not defined a mapping, I don't understand how language server can be started?

[amacfie-tc]

There is a mapping for *.er files:

When I open such a file, the server starts:

[angelozerr]

@amacfie I have tried it but as you, no success to consume the language server.

I created an issue at erg-lang/erg#522

[amacfie]

Thank you!

[angelozerr]

As it is a bug from ELS, I close this dicussion.