pascal-language-server VS zeal-at-point

In the case of Free Pascal, may I remind you that there is a fully featured IDE called Lazarus…

That’s cool, but if you already use Neovim for other things, there’s a Free Pascal Language Server Protocol (LSP) server for it too [1]. You’ll many of the same features that Lazarus has, like code completion, diagnostics, etc. In fact, it’s the same LSP that’s available for VS Code [2] and it uses Lazarus as a backend.

Too much is being made about how hard Neovim is to configure; if you’re new to it or to Lua, just use LSP Zero [3] that takes care of all of the details of installing LSP, linters, etc.

[1]: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/ser...

[2]: https://github.com/genericptr/pascal-language-server

[3]: https://github.com/VonHeikemen/lsp-zero.nvim

And if you do stick with Zeal, there is the zeal-at-point package. You still need the external Zeal reader, but at least it gives you a convenient way to lookup stuff in it from within Emacs.

I’ve used Zeal (a cross-platform Dash alternative) with zeal-at-point. Recently though I’ve gone all in on LSP, and highly recommended. Speaking from experience, at least for Haskell and Go, the integrated documentation is excellent.