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title: "Kate LSP Status - July 21"
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date: 2019-07-21T15:18:00+02:00
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draft: false
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categories: [kde, kate, development]
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tags: [kde, kate]
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url: /posts/kate-lsp-status-july-21/
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---
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The new LSP client by Mark Nauwelaerts keeps making nice progress.
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It will not be shipped with the KDE Applications 19.08 release, but in master it is now compiled & installed per default.
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You only need to activate it on the plugin configuration page in Kate's settings dialog to be able to use it.
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For details how to build Kate master with it's plugins, please take a look at [this guide](https://kate-editor.org/build-it/).
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If you want to start to hack on the plugin, you find it in the kate.git, [addons/lspclient](https://cgit.kde.org/kate.git/tree/addons/lspclient).
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Feel welcome to show up on [kwrite-devel@kde.org](mailto:kwrite-devel@kde.org) and help out!
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All development discussions regarding this plugin happen there.
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If you are already familiar with Phabricator, post some patch directly at [KDE's Phabricator instance](https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/).
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What is new this week?
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The most thing are internal cleanups and minor improvements.
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Feature wise, the hover implementation works now more like in other editors or IDEs, you get some nice tool tip after some delay:
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<p align="center">
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<a href="images/kate-hover.png" target="_blank"><img width=500 src="images/kate-hover.png"></a>
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</p>
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Never try to guess again what some *auto* means ;=)
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There is still a lot that can be improved, e.g. a filter for the symbols outline is in work:
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* [D22592 - port symbols view to model/view concept](https://phabricator.kde.org/D22592)
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To be able to later out-source some parts of the generic LSP client code to a library, if there is demand, we will aim to make the plugin be licensed under the MIT license.
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This should make it easier for other projects to depend of our code, if wanted.
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