[fpc-pascal] Pascal Language Server

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:

> 
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>> On Apr 28, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Why do you think so ? The codetools will find all referenced units that it finds in the unit search path.
>
> You're right. I was thinking there are going to be units that aren't referenced by the main program but why do you really want to search those anyways as they aren't actually part of the program.
>
> I'll see how it works to provide a main program file.  I guess it can
> search for lazarus projects to insepect also but I'll leave that for
> later.  My problems are mainly related to not having a notion of a project
> file like in lazarus that we can read paths from.

You can do what most VSCode/Atom project managers seem to, add package.json
or somesuch:

{
   "pascal-lsp" : {
     "projectfile" : "yourproject.pas",
     "searchpath" : ["a","b"]
   }
}

And use that as a starting point. As a fallback you can scan for lpi/lpr
(would be helpful for lazarus users)

Most plugins I saw till now use a kind of helper file in the project dir.

Michael.