REditorSupport / REditorSupport/vscode-R

Launch R LSP by a custom command and on the system shell

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Description

Currently, VSCode-R launches the R LSP by itself internally.
While for simple use-cases it sounds fine, a more advance user would like to control the exact command that is being launched for creating the LSP.

For example, in our company, we launch our R sessions only on remote machines, trough SSH. Since the language server run an R session, we'd like to run the R LSP on a remote machine.
This is done simply by running the LSP launch command in SSH(in this case the connection with VSCode is by STDIO), assuming we could have a custom command modification for LSP.

Another example is when the user would like to tweak privately the language server somehow(or hypothetically run a total different language server), and needs to tweak how this VSCode extension starts the LSP.

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Research direction

Start by tracing how the VSCode-R extension currently launches the R language server internally. Define the configuration and launch behavior needed for a user-supplied command, including system-shell and SSH/STDIO use cases; done means the extension can start the configured command while preserving normal launching behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
r, typescript, vscode
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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