Press Ctrl + Shift + P and look for and open Preferences: Open Settings (JSON).
Add the following settings to the JSON:
While this is definitely correct (I’ve used it), I think it could be better to use a local Lua language server configuration that is editor-independent. For example, I can stick this in a .luarc.json file in my project:
The VS Code bonus chapter (
book/bonus/vscode.md
) says the following:While this is definitely correct (I’ve used it), I think it could be better to use a local Lua language server configuration that is editor-independent. For example, I can stick this in a
.luarc.json
file in my project:The big advantage is that I now have the Lua language server working not just in VS Code, but also automatically in other editors (such as Zed).
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