Add support for cmake-language-server

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Review ALE's existing handling of CMake files and its interaction with cmake-format, then compare that behavior with the cmake-language-server features listed in the issue. Done means ALE provides a considered integration for the requested command completion and hover documentation without losing existing formatting support.

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Description

new tool

Name: cmake-language-server
URL: https://pypi.org/project/cmake-language-server/

This language server for CMake files comes with the following features (quoted from its own description):

  • Builtin command completion
  • Documentation for commands and variables on hover
  • Formatting (by cmake-format)

I.e. not much in addition to what ale already handles by interacting with cmake-format by itself. At least not enough for me to bother even attempting to use it. Still filing an issue, in case someone else might have a greater desire for command completion, or if the language server becomes more competent in the future.

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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