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Scratch buffers
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Description
There's no schema for scratch buffers (a buffer in the editor that has no associated file).
I propose something like buffer://<some-string-id-provided-by-client> to tell a language server: "Here's a document that's opened, but it has no associated file on disk".
Because the content of the buffer is provided in the textDocument/didOpen notification there shouldn't be a technical roadblock to this.
Because a server knows the workspace folders, it can deduce some basic properties like find an associated config file (e.g. tsconfig.json). So it should be able to provide basic services to scratch buffers.
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Research direction
Start with the LSP protocol definition for textDocument/didOpen and the proposed buffer:// URI shape. Check how the notification conveys in-memory content and how workspace folders relate to configuration discovery. Done means a specified, interoperable scratch-buffer schema and documented behavior for basic services.
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- Domain
- api, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100