debug-adapter-protocol VS tridactyl

> There's a strange dance of IDEs coming and going, with their idiosyncracies and partial plugins.

The Language Server Protocol [1] is the best thing to happen to text editors. Any editor that speaks it gets IDE features. Now if only they'd adopt the Debug Adapter Protocol [2]...

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

[2] https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/

Wonder if they've got support for Debug Adapter Protocol? https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/

> Debuggers need to do more things

It's true that coming up with an interface for an abstract debugger is harder, but it's not impossible. Microsoft create Debug Adapter Protocol (https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/), which is conceptually similar for LSP. It's not perfect, but covers most basic operations pretty well, while leaving to the debugger to deal with the implementation details.

Most languages also include support for the Debug Adapter Protocol, and Haskell is no exception, so if you are so inclined, you can hook up your favorite editor/IDE and go to town.

They're working on the Debug Adapter Protocol but it doesn't have critical mass/adoption yet. And yeah, I end up having a fair share of dbg!(foo). It's not so bad since dbg!() also returns its value, so you don't have to mess with your code too much.

TL;DR: What would it take to implement a Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP)-based step debugger?

RDP is the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol that was in use for decades before VSCode; VSCode's own remoting doesn't use it.

I'd say that, in addition to LSP, the other big thing that came out of VSCode is DAP: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol.

The most important part is the JDT Languag Server, it will give you the Java tooling for writing code. I think it has DAP support as well, so with a DAP client like nvim-dap you should be able to debug as well.

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You can achieve this with native messaging [0] in tridactyl [1]:

https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/850acdf2ca11018e...

It's really cool, I've added an option to open these windows in floating mode automatically in my sway config through another application name iirc. Ans then I press a simple shortcut, and it opens my editor (Helix) with the already entered text and once I close it, it'll transfer the text from that temporary file which was open in your editor to the the input field/textare again.

[0] https://github.com/tridactyl/native_messenger

as a pentadactly widow, i would recommend to anyone that is coming back to firefox tridactyl https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

is it the same? no.

but is it close? hell yeah. it really helps me with productivity!

> I can't even edit the code that is taking focus and hijacking shortcuts!

You can remove the shortcuts pretty easily with a userscript, see lines ~410-440 here for inspiration: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/2eaba7e4ceec6de5...

Wait until you find out about Tridactyl [0], which, among a plethora of other features, can activate a command line where you can perform all these searches (for example, `:tabopen` will list and activate fuzzy search of all opened tabs).

[0] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

You might be interested in using a browser plugin like Tridactyl instead, I’ve been using it for months now absolutely no complaints, no need to “simulate” the mouse anymore just use page hints to click exactly the html element you want to https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

Nearly everything on reddit uses reddit-flavored markdown. Backticks for inline code, as you discovered, but indent code blocks with four spaces. I use a browser extension so that I can edit all my comments in Vim, so manipulating this markup, especially code blocks, is easy.

I use tridactyl but the limitation of firefox API prevents addon to even change the built-in shortcuts: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/1428.