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by smarvin2 738 days ago
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for posting and upvoting this. Just wanted to say I'm the primary author here and happy to try and answer any questions anyone might have! Feel free to ask away here! This is a very new project and we have a lot of ground we are hoping to cover. Thank you for the support!
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FloatArtifact 738 days ago
It would be very interesting to leverage this to edit documents as much as code. Obviously editor-dependent due to the language server.
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CaptainOfCoit 737 days ago
Isn't the entire point behind "language server" (guess it's referring to LSP - Language Server Protocol) that it gets rid of editor-dependent stuff?

The dream (as I understood it) was that people could write things like this, and it'll work out-of-the-box for a bunch of other editors, as long as they follow LSP.

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ukuina 737 days ago
Are there any text editors that use LSPs for non-coding tasks?
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Dessesaf 736 days ago
It's not really about the editor. The editor (the LSP client) just provides support for telling the server what the user wants a definition for, and how to display that back to the user.

As a simple example, I'm learning japanese so I built a 50-line LSP server that just looks up definitions of a word under cursor in a dictionary. This is an almost-trivial server. Its only capability is to offer definitions when hovering a position in a text document. It works perfectly well in neovim with lspconfig with 2 lines of configuration. I'm sure it would be similarly trivial to integrate in VSCode, Emacs, etc.

Other non-coding uses of LSP that I'm aware of are spell-checking and grammar suggestions (LSP clients can display diagnostics), semantic syntax highlighting (e.g. for highlighting a markdown document), and projects like the one discussed here which just integrate more general-purpose AI.

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deanishe 736 days ago
I've seen one for Bean ledgers, so that's a bookkeeping LSP, I guess.
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sillystuff 737 days ago
Looks neat. Is there a way to pass through build flags to llama.cpp to build the Vulkan version (LLAMA_VULKAN=1)?

Llama.cpp using vulkan is great on laptop iGPUs.

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