geany-lsp

This is the development repository of the LSP plugin for Geany.

Main development of the plugin happens in this repository so please report bugs here. In addition, the plugin code will be uploaded to the geany-plugins before every release so if you are interested in the release version only, you can get it from there.

Features

The plugin provides the following LSP features:

Autocompletion
Function signagure
Diagnostic messages
Code lenses
Semantic token type highlighting
Hover popup
Symbol tree
Go to symbol definition/declaration
Go to type definition
Swap header/source
Find references
Find implementations
Navigation to document/project symbols, files, and line numbers
Code formatting
Identical symbol highlighting
Document symbol renaming
Project-wide renaming

Limitations

The plugin currently only works over stdin/stdout and takes over the responsibility for starting and stopping LSP servers. Some LSP servers, such as Godot, have to run all the time because they provide other functionality and have to be connected using sockets - this is not supported by the server at the moment.

Building

For building the plugin, you need to compile and install the latest Geany version (2.1) from git master. Then, you can build and install the LSP plugin using either

./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install

meson setup build && cd build && ninja && sudo ninja install

Quick Start

Install the LSP server you want to use.
Enable the LSP Client plugin under Tools->Plugin Manager.
Check the configuration file under Tools->LSP Client->User Configuration and make sure the LSP server is configured correctly, following the documentation of the LSP server you wish to use.
Create a Geany project and set its base path to the root directory of your sources.
Enable the LSP plugin for the project under Project->Properties->LSP Client.

Documentation

More information about the supported features and configuration can be found in

Jiri Techet, 2024