I use clangd. Works very well in general. Using it is simple, you launch
clangd via acme-lsp like this:
acme-lsp -server '(\.h)|(\.cc)$:/home/ole/bin/clangd_10.0.0/bin/clangd
--clang-tidy --background-index --cross-file-rename' -workspaces
/home/ole/xcomtest

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 5:51 AM <6o205zd02@sneakemail.com> wrote:

> I had never heard of acme-lsp and LSP (except as a Microsoft internal
> thing) until gabi mentioned it earlier in the thread.  I'm interesting in
> playing with acme-lsp for C++.  Which LSP server do you use for C/C++ (I
> see several listed at https://langserver.org/)?
>
>     thanks,
>     Peter
>
> On 2021-08-18 02:26, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
> ole.hjalmar.kristensen-at-gmail.com |9fans| wrote:
>
> On linux, you can run ctags -x and postprocess the file to append the line
> number to the file name instead of having i as a separate field. That way,
> you can locate the symbol in the tags file, and right-click on the
> file:linenumber.
>
> Also, on linux, we have acme-lsp, which in principle works with any LSP
> server. I have tested it with go and C/C++.
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:22 PM Ben Hancock <ben@benghancock.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello 9fans,
>> 
>> I've just recently started using the acme editor and am really enjoying
>> it, and trying to get the hang of the "acme way" of doing things. One
>> bit of functionality that I'm familiar with from other editors is the
>> ability to easily look up a function or symbol definition within a
>> codebase. In Emacs and vi, this is done by generating tags files (etags
>> or ctags), which those editors can parse and allow you to easily jump to
>> a definition of the symbol under the point/cursor.
>> 
>> What's the preferred method or workflow for achieving this in acme? I
>> have tried passing a selected symbol to 'g -n' in the window's tag,
>> using the Mouse-2 + Mouse-1 chord. That gets me part of the way there
>> but isn't effective if the file where the symbol is defined happens to
>> be in another directory. I feel like I'm missing something.
>> 
>> Many thanks!
>> 
>> - Ben
>> 
>> --
>> Ben Hancock
>> www.benghancock.com
>
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