antonk52
commented
1 month ago Hi, since this is a language server and not a plugin it is tricky. I can see a couple of ways how this can be achieved:
- Restart language server. It then reload all snippets from the provided paths. The startup time is near instant and for this reason I think this is a preferred reason.
- Expose command to reload snippet path. Currently basics_ls does not keep track of loaded file paths. For this reason in order to achieve it we'd need to implement it as well as keep track of conflicts and duplications. A simple example of such duplications is if a user provides
sources = {'path/to/snippets', 'path/to/snippets/python.json'}, the first path will be expanded and also include the second path. There are probably more complex cases.
Since the first option requires no additional effort and can work already I think it should be preferred. What do you think?
chrisgrieser
I am the maintainer of nvim-scissors, and would like to implement a hot-reload-support for the basics lsp. To be able to do that, the LSP needs to expose some sort of function that reloads a snippet file inside
settings.snippets.sourcessnippet engines usually expose such functionality, so other plugins can properly integrate with them, e.g.
require("luasnip.loaders").reload_file(path)for luasnip: https://github.com/L3MON4D3/LuaSnip/blob/master/DOC.md#loadersIt would be great for the basics LSP to also expose such a function, though I am not sure how this would work with an LSP as opposed to a lua plugin.