Language servers, whether you know about them or don’t. You’ve almost likely used it. It’s the thing that allows your editor to autocomplete, go to definitions/type definitions. Frankly they are pretty great.
But GingerBill had a kindof intreresting take on LSPs where he said that he doesn’t use them. I thought, who the hell doesn’t use an LSP completely, are they crazy or they those purists -same thing. But a point he said supporting this, is that you get to understand the codebase slightly better. I thought that can’t possibly be true, so I decided to do an experiment -no I didn’t ditch LSPs- I disabled the autocomplete feature, and he may have been onto something. I genuinely believe that I write code differently, I think things through slightly better and better yet, I name things better.
In as much as I like the quickfix list subing out strings with :cdo <some_random_regex> I could not get rid of
rename. Goto Definition on the other hand I was kinda on-and-off about,
I sub it with grep or live_grep or vimgrep.
Also from the linux kernel rust drama, I *understood the importance of a codebase being
greppable
Was this experiment worth it. Absolutely. Will I go back to using autocomplete, No. I never really truly disabled it it was just there, but I had to intentionally trigger it if I wasn’t really feeling like grepping for the thing I just forgot.
If you would like to try it out, you can add this to your blink dot lua
-- blink.lua
opts = {
-- rest of config
completion = {
menu = {
auto_show = function()
-- Dont show on command mode or insert
if vim.fn.mode() == "c" or vim.fn.mode() == "i" then
return false
end
return true
end,
draw = {
columns = {
{ "label", "label_description", gap = 1 },
{ "kind" }
},
},
},
}
-- rest of config
}
Not really sure how to do it in nvim-cmp