Nim Language Server

Nim Language Server, or nimlangserver, is a language server for Nim.

Installation

VSCode

• vscode-nim has support for nimlangserver. Follow the instructions at: https://github.com/saem/vscode-nim#nim-lanugage-server-integration-experimental

Installing binaries

NB: nimlangserver requires nimsuggest version that supports --v3:

• devel containing 19826
• 1.6+ containing 19892

You can install the latest release into $HOME/.nimble/bin using e.g.:

nimble install nimlangserver

From Source

nimble build

Configuration Options

• nim.projectMapping - configure how nimsuggest should be started. Here it is sample configuration for VScode. We don't want nimlangserver to start nimsuggest for each file and this configuration will allow configuring pair projectPath/fileRegex so when one of the regexp in the list matches current file then nimls will use root to start nimsuggest. In case there are no matches nimlangserver will try to guess the most suitable project root.
• nim.timeout - the request timeout in ms after which nimlangserver will restart the language server. If not specified the default is 2 minutes.
• nim.nimsuggestPath - the path to the nimsuggest. The default is "nimsuggest".
• nim.autoRestart - auto restart once in case of nimsuggest crash. Note that the server won't restart if there weren't any successful calls after the last restart.

{
    "nim.projectMapping": [{
        // open files under tests using one nimsuggest instance started with root = test/all.nim
        "projectPath": "tests/all.nim",
        "fileRegex": "tests/.*\\.nim"
    }, {
        // everything else - use main.nim as root.
        "projectPath": "main.nim",
        "fileRegex": ".*\\.nim"
    }]
}

Features

nimlangserver supports the following LSP features:

• Completions
• Hover
• Goto definition
• Document symbols
• Find references
• Workspace symbols

You can install nimlangserver using the instuctions for your text editor below:

VSCode

Install the vscode-nim extension from here

Emacs

• Install lsp-mode and nim-mode from melpa and add the following to your config:

(add-hook 'nim-mode-hook #'lsp)

Related Projects

• nimlsp

  Both nimlangserver and nimlsp are based on nimsuggest, but the main difference is that nimlsp has a single specific version of nimsuggest embedded in the server executable, while nimlangserver launches nimsuggest as an external process. This allows nimlangserver to handle any nimsuggest crashes more gracefully.

License

MIT