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No user documentation?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by comparing the README and Docs, which the issue identifies as outdated, with the referenced COC PowerShell code. Establish the current STDIO setup and document the available AdditionalModules and FeatureFlags. Done means users can configure PSES and run STDIO mode from up-to-date project documentation.

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Description

Area-Documentation Issue-Enhancement
The Short

Could not figure out how to run in STDIO mode. Could find no up-to-date documentation.

The Long

After discovering that this project has a general STDIO LSP mode, I wasted time between the:

  1. README (that has been saying "detailed usage documentation...coming soon!" since 2017)
  2. Docs (that haven't changed since 2016)
  3. Issue comments

before eventually figuring it out by referring to COC's code.

I still have no idea what possible -AdditionalModules or -FeatureFlags exist, or whether I've even configured PSES correctly.

I would really appreciate some up-to-date documentation!

Dominant language
C#
Stars
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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