scalameta/metals

Missing documentation for "commands" in Emacs docs

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#5,708 opened on Oct 3, 2023

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Description

Describe the bug

In the documentation of metals for Emacs there is this paragraph:

To get started with a worksheet you can either use the metals.new-scala-file command

and later:

Since Metals v0.11.7 it's now possible to run scalafix rules using a special command metals.scalafix-run.

There is no explanation for how to run such commands, however.

Expected behavior

An explanation of what a "command" is.

Operating system

None

Editor/Extension

Emacs (lsp-metals)

Version of Metals

web

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Add an explanatory paragraph about how to run commands in Emacs after the mentioned paragraph.
Tech stack
scala
Domain
documentation
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