Use Case: default or `lsp-auto-setup.nvim`

[barrett-ruth]

Hi, I have a quick guess about the use case of this plugin. I'll just contextualize this with the experience I'm looking for:

1. Define an lsp config in lsp/
2. That configuration is merged with nvim-lspconfig's default configuration
3. Also be able to easily apply my own on_attach logic, which I now realized is possible with lspconfig.util.default_config

Currently, lsp-auto-setup.nvim lets me do all this with ease. My one gripe: I don't automatically want every single LSP under the sun to be automatically picked up. I suppose I'm suggesting the following option include:

{
   ...
  opts = {
    -- List of server names to include with auto-setup - mutually exclusive with exclude
    include = {},

    -- List of server names to exclude from auto-setup
    exclude = {}
    }
  }
}

I ask for this feature because I'm getting random diagnostic errors for digestif, ttf-vmi-blah blah, and a bunch of LSPs with binaries indeed on my PATH that still end up breaking and bombarding my editor with errors. Each time I have to manually add the LSP list to be excluded in the configuration

What do you think?

||Personally, I think both my request and parts of lsp-auto-setup.nvimwill eventually be baked into neovim core.||

[Massolari]

Thanks for opening this issue.

I understand your case and see that an include option would make the plugin work better for you.

But I spent some time thinking about this, because the idea of the plugin is to avoid setting a list with the servers you want to enable. After all, we already have this with lspconfig and, now, with vim.lsp.enable:

local servers = {"pyright", "lua_ls"}
for _, server in ipairs(servers) do
  require("lspconfig")[server].setup({
    on_attach = on_attach,
    capabilities = vim.lsp.protocol.make_client_capabilities(),
  })
end

or, if you have lsp/pyright.lua and lsp/lua_ls.lua:

vim.lsp.enable({"pyright", "lua_ls"})

Adding an include option to this plugin won't bring anything that we already can't accomplish easily without the plugin.

If you're only using this plugin to get the automatic merging of lsp/[server].lua with nvim-lspconfig configuration, I think it's better for you to copy the configuration from nvim-lspconfig and paste into your lsp/ folder until they implement the support for the lsp/ directory (which they should do soon): neovim/nvim-lspconfig#3659

The users for this plugin are people that want to blacklist servers, not whitelist them. If you want to whitelist servers, you already can and don't need this plugin at all

[barrett-ruth]

makes perfect sense! thanks for the response. awesome plugin, btw. worked first try out of the box.