LSP for Elixir language

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Hi,
I just started using Kakoune and find it great. I believe its an improvement on the vim key bindings.
I am trying to set up the elixir language server with the kak-lsp plugin but I am not successfull.
I have intalled the kak-lsp plugin using kak-plug.
The language server for elixir is here - https://github.com/JakeBecker/elixir-ls
I have added the following code to kak-lsp.toml
[language.elixir]
filetypes = [“elixir”]
roots = [“mix.exs”]
command = “sh”
args = ["~/Documents/elixir_dev/precompiled_elixir_ls/elixir-ls/language_server.sh"]

I have not made any changes to the kakrc file.
If i open a elixir file (.ex) the kak-lsp doesn’t seem to work. Even if i start it manually its not working for me. I don’t get any error messages. Can someone please help me to set it up properly.
I am really keen on using Kakoune and this would make it even more powerful for my use case.
Thanks.

2

why did you specified the lanhuage server as sh?

3

Hello!

First thing which lead to problems is using ~ in the path — bare-bones sh frequently doesn’t expand it.

After fixing this problem I still get language server dying even when I try to communicate to it manually:

$ sh ~/Hub/elixir-ls/target/release/language_server.sh
Content-Length: 160

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"window/logMessage","params":{"message":"\u001B[22m\n20:01:13.952 [info]  Application hipe exited: :stopped\n\u001B[0m","type":4}}

Content-Length: 99

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"window/logMessage","params":{"message":"Started ElixirLS","type":4}}

Content-Length: 325

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"window/logMessage","params":{"message":"\u001B[22m\n20:01:13.953 [info]  Application elixir_sense exited: :stopped\n\u001B[0m\u001B[22m\n20:01:13.953 [info]  Application erl2ex exited: :stopped\n\u001B[0m\u001B[22m\n20:01:13.953 [info]  Application forms exited: :stopped\n\u001B[0m","type":4}}

Content-Length: 138

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"window/logMessage","params":{"message":"Elixir version: \"1.8.1 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 21)\"","type":4}}

Content-Length: 105

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"window/logMessage","params":{"message":"Erlang version: \"21\"","type":4}}

Content-Length: 415

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"initialize","params":{"capabilities":{"textDocument":{"colorProvider":null,"completion":{"completionItem":{"documentationFormat":["plaintext"],"snippetSupport":false}}},"workspace":{"workspaceEdit":{"documentChanges":true,"resourceOperations":["create","delete","rename"]}}},"processId":17120,"rootUri":"file:///Users/rprakapchuk/Hub/elixir-ls/apps/language_server","trace":"off"},"id":0}
Content-Length: 1258

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"window/logMessage","params":{"message":"** (exit) exited in: GenServer.call(ElixirLS.LanguageServer.JsonRpc, {:packet, %{\"id\" => 0, \"jsonrpc\" => \"2.0\", \"method\" => \"initialize\", \"params\" => %{\"capabilities\" => %{\"textDocument\" => %{\"colorProvider\" => nil, \"completion\" => %{\"completionItem\" => %{\"documentationFormat\" => [\"plaintext\"], \"snippetSupport\" => false}}}, \"workspace\" => %{\"workspaceEdit\" => %{\"documentChanges\" => true, \"resourceOperations\" => [\"create\", \"delete\", \"rename\"]}}}, \"processId\" => 17120, \"rootUri\" => \"file:///Users/rprakapchuk/Hub/elixir-ls/apps/language_server\", \"trace\" => \"off\"}}}, 5000)\n    ** (EXIT) no process: the process is not alive or there's no process currently associated with the given name, possibly because its application isn't started\n    (elixir) lib/gen_server.ex:979: GenServer.call/3\n    (elixir) lib/stream.ex:435: anonymous fn/4 in Stream.each/2\n    (elixir) lib/stream.ex:1394: Stream.do_resource/5\n    (elixir) lib/stream.ex:1568: Enumerable.Stream.do_each/4\n    (elixir) lib/stream.ex:640: Stream.run/1\n    (stdlib) erl_eval.erl:680: :erl_eval.do_apply/6\n    (elixir) lib/code.ex:232: Code.eval_string/3","type":2}}

I will try to figure out what happens, but I’m not an expert in Erlang/Elixir.

4

Okay, I managed to get it work with the release https://github.com/JakeBecker/elixir-ls/releases/download/v0.2.24/elixir-ls.zip

So, try to spell out home directory explicitly instead of using ~. Let me know if it doesn’t help.

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5

Thank you so much. It worked You rock! and so does kakoune.

6

Hi,

Can you please give me what you have in your kak-lsp.toml file regarding elixir. I started using kakoune from scratch and cannot get elixir language server to work. LSP is working fine for css and html though.
For elixir-ls i am using - https://github.com/JakeBecker/elixir-ls/releases/download/v0.2.25/elixir-ls.zip

[language.elixir]
filetypes = ["elixir"]
roots = [".git",  "mix.exs"]
command = ["sh"]
args = ["/Users/sreyans/Documents/elixir_dev/elixir-ls-master/language_server.sh"]

Also is there a way by which i can get to know any errors i have made. For ex i tried tweaking the verbosity but didn’t get any error.
Thank you so much.

7

I got it to run. The problem was I had not created the kak-lsp/kak-lsp.toml file the ~/.config folder. Once i did, it started working. Thanks for the time and help and amazing work with kak-lsp and ofcourse kakoune.