# How to setup LSP's for python and ansible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** lsp, plugins\ **Created:** [March 5, 2024, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-to-setup-lsps-for-python-and-ansible/2422 "2024-03-05T08:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LxWulf](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lxwulf/32/1440_2.png) [@LxWulf](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/LxWulf)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-to-setup-lsps-for-python-and-ansible/2422/1 "2024-03-05T08:49:00Z")
I’m new to `kakoune` and so far I really like it. The configuration is much smaller than in other terminal based editors. Still, I have some difficulties with setup LSP’s. I want to use `python` and `ansible` with their corresponding LSP’s. I read through the documentation but didn’t find sense in it. _That’s a “me” problem in general, I don’t want to say the documentation is bad or so. I just did not get the hang of it._ So I’m asking here for help and I hope I got some. Please be patience with me, I will give my best to understand anything you would say. > **Info** > I installed `kakoune` new and deleted the configuration file to start from 0. Greetings LxWulf 🐧🐺 ---
**Author:** ![tototest99](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/tototest99/32/629_2.png) [@tototest99](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/tototest99)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-to-setup-lsps-for-python-and-ansible/2422/2 "2024-03-06T18:27:50Z")
1. [Install Kakoune](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune?tab=readme-ov-file#installing) From your message, you don’t seems very familiar with POSIX systems, I recommand to use you OS package manager (e.g. Apt for debian based Linux). 1. [Install Kakoune-lsp](https://github.com/kakoune-lsp/kakoune-lsp?tab=readme-ov-file#installing) If it is not packaged in your OS package manager, I recommand to use a [pre-build binary](https://github.com/kakoune-lsp/kakoune-lsp?tab=readme-ov-file#others) 1. [Install a language server, e.g. Ruff](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/installation/) 2. Set Kakoune-lsp configuration file, in `$HOME/.config/kak-lsp/kak-lsp.toml`, uncomment the `[language_server.ruff]` paragraph 3. Set Kakoune main configuration file in `$HOME/.config/kak/kakrc`: add to this file what is recommanded [here](https://github.com/kakoune-lsp/kakoune-lsp?tab=readme-ov-file#configure-kakoune-to-enable-lsp) 4. Restart Kakoune and edit a Python file ---
**Author:** ![LxWulf](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lxwulf/32/1440_2.png) [@LxWulf](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/LxWulf)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-to-setup-lsps-for-python-and-ansible/2422/3 "2024-03-09T11:55:56Z")
Hey @tototest99, Firstly, I will thank you for taking time to help, really appreciate this! Not really, I know that POSIX standard exist but never used it, at least never consciously. But why did you ask? My set-up way: 1. I installed `kakoune` via `dnf` successfully. 2. I also installed `kak-lsp` via `pre-build binary`. And I can execute it. 3. The `ruff` language server is installed in a virtual python environment. So far so good, I guess, but in the next step where I should uncomment the `[language_server.ruff]` paragraph I stuck, because my file is empty. So I looked around and found a setup for the `helix` editor in the `ruff-lsp` repository [here](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-lsp?tab=readme-ov-file#example-helix), which also uses a `toml` configuration style. I also added the recommended lines to my `kakrc` file. **That’s my kakrc file:** ```sh eval %sh{kak-lsp --kakoune -s $kak_session} hook global WinSetOption filetype=(rust|python|go|json|javascript|typescript) %{ lsp-enable-window } # mappings lsp map global user l %{:enter-user-mode lsp} -docstring "LSP mode" map global insert ':try lsp-snippets-select-next-placeholders catch %{ execute-keys -with-hooks tab> }' -docstring 'Select next snippet placeholder' map global object a 'lsp-object' -docstring 'LSP any symbol' map global object 'lsp-object' -docstring 'LSP any symbol' map global object f 'lsp-object Function Method' -docstring 'LSP function or method' map global object t 'lsp-object Class Interface Struct' -docstring 'LSP class interface or struct' map global object d 'lsp-diagnostic-object --include-warnings' -docstring 'LSP errors and warnings' map global object D 'lsp-diagnostic-object' -docstring 'LSP errors' ``` **This is my kak-lsp.toml file:** ```toml [language-server.ruff] command = "~/Downloads/.venv-lsp/bin/ruff" [[language]] name = "python" language-servers = ["ruff"] auto-format = true[language-server.ruff] ``` ---
**Author:** ![tototest99](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/tototest99/32/629_2.png) [@tototest99](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/tototest99)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-to-setup-lsps-for-python-and-ansible/2422/4 "2024-03-09T12:41:57Z")
> [@LxWulf](#): > > But why did you ask? Because Kakoune being a relatively niche editor, and Kakoune-lsp being a plugin for said editor is a setup more accessible to people familiar with compiling, installing, and updating via Git under a typical file system hierarchy than by waiting OS package managers to take care of doing it, and most don’t event provide a framework to deploy config files, but anyway I digress… [Kakoune-lsp repo](https://github.com/kakoune-lsp/kakoune-lsp/blob/master/kak-lsp.toml) contains a default configuration for most of LSPs. So your `kak-lsp.toml` could be, I guess: ```auto file_watch_support = false snippet_support = true verbosity = 2 [server] # exit session if no requests were received during given period in seconds # set to 0 to disable timeout = 1800 # seconds = 30 minutes [language_server.ruff] filetypes = ["python"] roots = ["requirements.txt", "setup.py", ".git", ".hg"] command = "ruff-lsp" settings_section = "_" [language_server.ruff.settings._.globalSettings] organizeImports = true fixAll = true ``` given that `ruff-lsp` should be in your `$PATH ` environment variable. In case it’s not clear, you should have a file such as `setup.py` in your working directory (or a `pyproject.toml` as current practice goes).