lsp-mode VS eglot

Compare lsp-mode vs eglot and see what are their differences.

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lsp-mode eglot
118 66
4,669 2,178
0.6% -
9.3 3.0
5 days ago 4 days ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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lsp-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of lsp-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.
  • lsp-mode: Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 15 Oct 2023
  • lsp-keymap-prefix not working
    1 project | /r/emacs | 22 Mar 2023
    I also tried to the solutions suggested ![here](https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/1532) and ![here](https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/1672), but nothing worked. I moved the (setq lsp-keymap-...) line outside (and before) use-package. I also used :config (define-key lsp-load-map...) in my use-package block. But none of them worked.
  • Help getting the yaml language server working with eglot
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 21 Mar 2023
    Not sure how much this might help, but lsp-mode has lsp-yaml-select-buffer-schema and lsp-yaml-set-buffer-schema commands to pick schema from a list or set from a URI. Checking the source of them might give some hints about how the same could be implemented in eglot?
  • What LaTeX setup do you use?
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Mar 2023
    Beyond that you might as well embrace the suck and install autex with a language server: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/
  • Emacs bankruptcy
    17 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Mar 2023
    Smart completion these days is done primarily through LSP. eglot is fairly minimal but built-in as of 29, also available via GNU Elpa. lsp-mode is another option with more integrations and a bit more fleshed out.
  • The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer
    7 projects | /r/rust | 13 Feb 2023
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
    lsp-mode: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/2080
  • Setting up a fundraiser for multi-threaded Emacs, any thoughts on this?
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Feb 2023
    Are you running emacs-29? It has numerous speed-ups compared to emacs-28 and older versions, many of them coded by Mattias Engdegård, e.g. commit def6fa4246. I have a fresh build of emacs-29 running on Linux and a new mac with an M1 CPU, and it's stupid fast. I don't use the native-comp feature. I rarely notice any hesitation or slowness. I don't use Elpy. I do use lsp mode.
  • Newbie here! Need Help!
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Jan 2023
    Since you are doing code development, the first things to go for would be setting up your emacs packaging (installing use-package and melpa (use-package's documentation covers this) so you have more packages to choose from (do be careful to not just pick things willy nilly but research them a bit first)) and then setting up lsp-mode. lsp-mode lets you use LSP servers for the specific programming languages you work with in a somewhat unified fashion. You then need to install and setup the LSP servers for the languages you use, and possibly install language specific Emacs packages as support (note, Emacs has builtin functionality for many).
  • Emacs 29: Install Tree-Sitter parser modules with a minor mode
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 26 Dec 2022
    And first of all, I'm trying to understand, how is it connected to https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode? I'm sure, that existed lsp implementations already parse source code. Why TreeSitter?

eglot

Posts with mentions or reviews of eglot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.
  • LSP could have been better
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    Recently I stumbled upon this issue:

    https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/1127

    I don't know enough about emacs and LSP to see the full picture, but it seems that both eglot's and corfu's maintainers, assumably very competent programmers, can't find a solution for this.

    I only skimmed the thread. My understanding is that LSP dumps a long list of completion candidates at once and they can't decide a cache strategy that works well with existing code...?

  • Spurious errors with Eglot / pylsp
    1 project | /r/emacs | 10 Jul 2023
    It could be. There are unfixed issues with eglot and corfu, and sadly not a lot of willingness to investigate.
  • Using Quarto with Emacs
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Jun 2023
    Eglot errors when I add new Python code blocks. The error disappears when I reconnect the language server, but the same happens again when I add a new code block. My "workaround" now is that before I start working on the .qmd file, I just add a bunch of Python code blocks (for which I also have a function) and then reconnect the language server again. This way I can start working for a while until I need to add more code blocks again.
  • Looking for help in improving Typescript Eglot, Corfu, Orderless performance
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Jun 2023
    This discussion has helped with some performance issues: https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/993.
  • Typescript highlighting in emacs incomplete (compared to VSCode) even after using treesitter?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 3 Jun 2023
    I guess eglot doesn't support it yet: https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/pull/839
  • joaotavora/breadcrumb: Emacs headerline indication of where you are in a large project
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 12 May 2023
    This is not by pure chance, João is the developer of the Eglot LSP client and the breadcrumbs from LSP-mode had been requested as a feature, but as far as I remember João thought rightfully that this could be an independent package, see https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/988
  • Returning emacs user - what packages are common now?
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 9 May 2023
    A substantial section of the community is using corfu instead of company, but I wouldn't say company is out of date by any means. In emacs 29 eglot will be a built in, which might act as a replacement for lsp-mode depending on what functionality you need.
  • Eglot upgrade strategy
    1 project | /r/emacs | 6 May 2023
    I am currently running emacs 29 (built from emacs-29 branch) which – according to https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot – should contain the latest eglot.
  • 916 Days of Emacs
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2023
    Yep. You can use flymake or flycheck for that in combination with eglot or lsp-mode.

    See https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot#diagnostics

  • Eglot, eldoc and golang
    1 project | /r/emacs | 12 Apr 2023
    (I have reported this (that is, ElDoc missing docs for callable things at point, when Eglot is enabled) as an issue recently: First on GitHub-discussions https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/1200, then on Debbugs https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=62687. But the threads are very long, so I don't recommend reading them.)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lsp-mode and eglot you can also consider the following projects:

tide - Tide - TypeScript Interactive Development Environment for Emacs

dap-mode - Emacs :heart: Debug Adapter Protocol

ctags - A maintained ctags implementation

clangd - clangd language server

ANTLR - ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs [Moved to: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer]

web-mode - web template editing mode for emacs

company-lsp - Company completion backend for lsp-mode

company-mode - Modular in-buffer completion framework for Emacs

vscode-intelephense - PHP intellisense for Visual Studio Code

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs