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spgennard / vscode_cobol

Visual Studio Code Extension for COBOL, JCL and MF Directive Files
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How to use/enable the Cobol LSP? #336

Closed octanervoc closed 1 month ago

octanervoc commented 1 month ago

BitLang Cobol does not seem to include an LSP by default, unlike IBM Open Editor, for instance. By following past issues from this repository, I found out that the LSP is provided by another extension, such as the Micro Focus Cobol extension. However, that did not seem to make any difference. My JAVA_HOME is correctly set to /usr/lib/jvm/temurin-17-jdk-amd64.

Am I doing something wrong? Is BitLang Cobol supposed to use another extension for LSP support? Thanks for the extension, it's much less bloated than IBM Open Editor, which helps me a lot as a complete beginner to Cobol.

spgennard commented 1 month ago

The extension was created before VSCODE had support for lsp, so it uses the extension apis.

The best approach is to disable the extension via profiles and use this or other extensions when/where ever required

spgennard commented 1 month ago

The Micro Focus extension requires a microfocus product installed/ licensed for its lsp to work.

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