dap-mode VS texlab

Compare dap-mode vs texlab and see what are their differences.

dap-mode

Emacs :heart: Debug Adapter Protocol (by emacs-lsp)

texlab

An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX (by latex-lsp)
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dap-mode texlab
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6.4 9.2
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dap-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of dap-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-03.
  • GNU Debugger "GDB" Adds Support For Microsoft's Debug Adapter Protocol
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Mar 2023
    GDB with gdb -i dap allows you to debug any language that GDB can debug from within Emacs' dap-mode: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode
  • Eglot and debugging python
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 16 Feb 2023
    lsp's brother. One search away. https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode
  • How to debug go tests with lsp and dap mode?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Jan 2023
    Debug template for go subtest was just added: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode/pull/704/
  • Emacs as IDE
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Dec 2022
    Debugging (kind of an IDE feature) is a little harder. Out of the box, Emacs can at least debug emacs-lisp (with built-in features) and C (via gdb integration). Beyond that, take a look at dap-mode for other language options. Similarly, take a look at lsp-mode or eglot for code completion, more advanced linting, etc.
  • Eglot has landed on master: Emacs now has a built-in LSP client
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2022
    At least for web development I believe eglot is strictly worse. It does not support running multiple servers (e.g. tsserver and eslint-ls) (https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/issues/976) which is supported by lsp-mode and neovim's built-in lsp client. Also, it does not have any equivalent to dap-mode which is lsp-mode only. Although worth noting dap-mode is currently useless for js (https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode/issues/369).
  • EGlot as LSP - Interface & DAP
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 13 Oct 2022
    Hi, as it seems EGlot will receive the blessing of inclusion into vanilla Emacs. That makes me wonder how I am supposed to use dap-mode at it swaps in lsp-mode as a dependency.
  • Debugging GameBoy Advance (GBA) programs/games in Emacs
    7 projects | dev.to | 11 Oct 2022
    We will use dap-mode with the dap-gdb-lldb option here. Under the hood, it uses the debug adapter from the Native Debug VSCode extension. Configuring it is described on the dap-mode webpages. After we have configured dap-mode, we could in theory reuse the launch.json configurations from the VSCode related articles above. That will require that you also use lsp-mode, as dap-launch depends on the lsp-workspace-root function and will not resolve when lsp-mode is not used. I don't use lsp-mode with C (company-clang and company-c-headers provide what I need), so the next logical solution would be to create a debug template ourselves:
  • John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2022
    Hmm it does seem like Emacs is growing support for the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP), the LSP-alike convention that allows language developers to build language-specific debuggers that tie into the VSCode UI: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode
  • Programming in Python
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Jul 2022
    So, what do you need: - Language server for Python (lsp and lsp-ui) Use lsp-mode it's more reach with features at the moment https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/installation/ - Real-time program debugging (dap-mode) https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode
  • lsp-mode vs eglot
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Mar 2022
    Seems like too much work and the issue has been closed and not reopened since 2018 sadly. It looks like it won't be happening any time soon. https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode/issues/2

texlab

Posts with mentions or reviews of texlab. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.
  • UnTeX - Parsing and formatting TeX documents with Rust - Looking for help
    6 projects | /r/rust | 27 Jan 2023
    I have a very limited understanding of Parsing but I would assume that Latex Language Servers have to implement similar parsing too? So maybe check out TexLab. It’s implemented in Rust so maybe it’s an interesting reference.
  • Texlab LSP server crashes on launch
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 25 Nov 2022
    If you’re still stuck you can try reporting an issue here or look for ones similar to yours: https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab
  • Overleaf makes me mad and TeXstudio is superior
    3 projects | /r/LaTeX | 25 Oct 2022
    If you use emacs, I recommend to get some modern goodness by installing lsp-mode (or eglot) to interact with language servers and then install a latex language servers like texlab. This in my expericence really improved the autocompletion so I don't feel like I loose anything over using vscode, texlab or overleaf .Recently I also switched to lsp-ltex for language-tool integration. All those tools lsp servers can also be used from other editors with lsp support, so use what you prefer. I would only recommend emacs to those who want a fully customized and keyboard driven experience and are not afraid to eventually modify some lisp code. But it has its unique advantages, many editing tools and in addition to the still great auctex also cdlatex for super quick math typesetting.
  • Is there a way to continuously update the PDF file while using on Emacs?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 11 Sep 2022
    you can use https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab
  • Most straightforward installation of LaTeX in VSCode
    6 projects | /r/LaTeX | 9 Sep 2022
  • Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2022
    I use overleaf these days mostly because overleaf makes it effortless to work across multiple machines. I still have my neovim + texlab [1] setup just in case though.

    [1]: https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab

  • pantran.nvim: asynchronous, interactive machine translation directly from your editor
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Jul 2022
    Story time: I really love Neovim for programming, but one thing I love it even more for is scientific writing. Tools like texlab make this especially fun! But for a well-rounded experience, I need a few more things: (i) Grammar checking. For that I can recommend ltex, an LSP-server which adds LaTeX support to language tool. (ii) Thesaurus lookup. (Neo)vims integrated thesaurus format is a little bit limited. But thankfully 'thesaurusfunc' exists so I could easily write a small plugin to add support for openoffice.org mythes thesauri. (iii) Machine translation. Now we're finally getting to the topic of this post. I write most of my stuff in English but I'm not a native speaker, so machine translation is valuable for me. It can help me to overcome writers block to an extent, for example. There already exist a few plugins for that problem, like vim-translator or translate.nvim. But none of these support interactive modes, a slick UI, and, as far as I know, useful things like motions and counts. This is where my plugin pantran.nvim comes into place! The demo should speak for itself. In the end it was a lot more effort than I anticipated but I'm very pleased with the result. I hope this can be useful to others as well!
  • Using texlab with lspconfig keeps giving me build errors but cannot troubleshoot.
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Jun 2022
    I'm going a bit crazy over this. I'm trying to compile a latex document; and I have texlab configures. The nvim-lspconfig defines the custom function TexlabBuild which calls textDocument/build function from texlab; which should be running latexmk with the proper arguments.
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Jun 2022
    So i found the following issue https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab/issues/122 . While it's not my issue; i think texlab has issues with multi file projects in general. I use subfile package to organize my latex projects as i used to use vimtex for multi file projects and vimtex has good support for this.
  • AUCTeX vs. LSP (Digestif vs. TexLab)
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 30 Apr 2022
    AUCTeX and cdlatex are tried and tested packages in supporting the composition of TeX-documents. However, with the advent of LSP-servers, like TexLab and digestif, there is another (viable?) option to compose TeX-documents.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dap-mode and texlab you can also consider the following projects:

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers

lsp-mode - Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol

vimtex - VimTeX: A modern Vim and neovim filetype plugin for LaTeX files.

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

ltex-ls - LTeX Language Server: LSP language server for LanguageTool :mag::heavy_check_mark: with support for LaTeX :mortar_board:, Markdown :pencil:, and others

realgud - The Grand "Cathedral" Debugger rewrite

nvim-texlabconfig - nvim-texlabconfig: Forward and Inverse Search for Texlab and neovim

tectonic - A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

pdb-cheatsheet - A cheatsheet for the Python Debugger (pdb)

code-debug - Native debugging for VSCode