Introspect on Julia side of extension

[goretkin]

If this question is better to be asked on Discourse, please let me know.

In Julia for VSCode, there are two Julia environments corresponding to commands "Julia: Start REPL" "Julia: Restart Language Server".

The "Julia side" of the extension runs in this environment with this entrypoint.

Can I get a REPL where I can access the LanguageServerInstance and something like, I don't know, access the currently focused Document?

It looks like run(::LanguageServerInstance) isn't designed to enable that, and scripts/languageserver/main.jl is not supposed to terminate.

[pfitzseb]

Not easily, no.

You should be able to change the startup code to open a terminal and start Julia in that (plus wrap that main loop you pointed out in an @async).

[davidanthoff]

I think there is nothing to do here, right? I'm closing for now.

[pfitzseb]

Yes, although we might want to think about making this easier (even if only for our own ease of development).

[davidanthoff]

I actually was thinking for some time whether we can just start the LS in the debugger, which would be neat :) I did look into that at some point, and I could swear that there was in the past a way to start a LS manually, and then connect the LS client to a running instance, which would have enabled that scenario fairly easily, but I can't find any trace of info on how to do that anymore. So either I made that up, it was removed, or it is just tricky to find at the moment.