Eglot ("Emacs Polyglot") is an Emacs LSP client that stays out of your way. Typing M-x eglot in some source file is often enough to get you started, if the language server you're looking to use is installed in your system. Please refer to the manual, available from https://joaotavora.github.io/eglot/ or from M-x info for more usage instructions. If you wish to contribute changes to Eglot, please do read the user manual first. Additionally, take the following in consideration: * Eglot's main job is to hook up the information that language servers offer via LSP to Emacs's UI facilities: Xref for definition-chasing, Flymake for diagnostics, Eldoc for at-point documentation, etc. Eglot's job is generally *not* to provide such a UI itself, though a small number of simple counter-examples do exist, e.g. in the `eglot-rename' command or the `eglot-inlay-hints-mode' minor mode. When a new UI is evidently needed, consider adding a new package to Emacs, or extending an existing one. * Eglot was designed to function with just the UI facilities found in the latest Emacs core, as long as those facilities are also available as GNU ELPA :core packages. Historically, a number of :core packages were added or reworked in Emacs to make this possible. This principle should be upheld when adding new LSP features or tweaking existing ones. Design any new facilities in a way that they could work in the absence of LSP or using some different protocol, then make sure Eglot can link up LSP information to it. * There are few Eglot configuration variables. This principle should also be upheld. If Eglot had these variables, it could be duplicating configuration found elsewhere, bloating itself up, and making it generally hard to integrate with the ever growing set of LSP features and Emacs packages. For instance, this is why one finds a single variable `eglot-ignored-server-capabilities' instead of a number of capability-specific flags, or why customizing the display of LSP-provided documentation is done via ElDoc's variables, not Eglot's. * Linking up LSP information to other libraries is generally done in the `eglot--managed-mode' minor mode function, by buffer-locally setting the other library's variables to Eglot-specific versions. When deciding what to set the variable to, the general idea is to choose a good default for beginners that doesn't clash with Emacs's defaults. The settings are only in place during Eglot's LSP-enriched tenure over a project. Even so, some of those decisions will invariably aggravate a minority of Emacs power users, but these users can use `eglot-stay-out-of' and `eglot-managed-mode-hook' to adjust things to their preferences. * On occasion, to enable new features, Eglot can have soft dependencies on popular libraries that are not in Emacs core. "Soft" means that the dependency doesn't impair any other use of Eglot beyond that feature. Such is the case of the snippet functionality, via the Yasnippet package, Markdown formatting of at-point documentation via the markdown-mode package, and nicer looking completions when the Company package is used.