Install instructions

[seba-1511]

This project looks quite promising, especially given that most editors are including support for LSP.

Could you provide install instructions for people that are not familiar with gradle/the java ecosystem ?

Thanks,
Séb

[adamvoss]

Are you looking for build instructions or installation instructions?

Build instructions I can do: gradle build

Installation instructions would become a matter of what you mean by "install." Currently the only client I know of is vscode-languagetool which bundles this server so separate installation is not required.

[seba-1511]

Thanks for your quick reply.

I managed to run gradle build, but how would I start the language server ? (e.g. for python I would start it with pyls , for C clangd, etc...)

My specific language client is for neovim, but I assume this would be useful for others too.

[adamvoss]

Here is how you can start this application:

gradle installDist
./build/install/languagetool-languageserver/bin/languagetool-languageserver $PORT_NUMBER

Where $PORT_NUMBER is the port for the socket connection (opened by the client) that the server will communicate with.

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I'll be happy to accept pull requests that add better support for other clients, but this is not something I will be undertaking myself in the foreseeable future. This does use LSP4J and speaks the protocol, but the actual communication piece was only written enough to support the VSCode client I was writing at the time.

[plexigras]

@seba-1511 did you get it to work?

[seba-1511]

No, didn't have the time to fiddle and try to connect it with neovim-language-client.

[davidlday]

Please see issue #6.