fennel-ls

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Provides intelligent editing features for fennel files.

Installation

fennel-ls Language Server Binary

On Linux or Mac OS,

$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~xerool/fennel-ls
$ cd fennel-ls
$ make

will create a bleeding-edge latest git fennel-ls binary for you.

Arch Linux

I think fennel-ls and fennel-ls-git is in the AUR.

Luarocks

fennel-ls is available in LuaRocks.

luarocks install fennel-ls

NixOS

If you are using NixOS, you can use the included /flake.nix or /default.nix.

Emacs

prerequisites: You have installed the fennel-ls binary.

For Emacs 30+, eglot will use fennel-ls automatically if its on the $PATH. For older versions:

(with-eval-after-load 'eglot
  (add-to-list 'eglot-server-programs '(fennel-mode . ("fennel-ls"))))

This code tells eglot to connect fennel-ls to your fennel-mode buffers.

Neovim

prerequisites: You have installed the fennel-ls binary. If you're using neovim+lspconfig, use this snippet:

require("lspconfig").fennel_ls.setup()

If you're also using mason and you want to install fennel-ls that way, you can use mason-lspconfig to ensure fennel-ls is installed:

require("mason-lspconfig").setup {
    ensure_installed = {"fennel_ls"}
}

Other editors

It should be possible to set up for other text editors, but the instructions depend on which editor you use. Generally you need to tell your editor:

• "fennel-ls" is a language server program on the $PATH
• it should be run for fennel files.

Usage

You can ask fennel-ls to treat your file as a macro file if the first line exactly matches ;; fennel-ls: macro-file. Expect this to change at some point in the future when I come up with a better way to specify which files are meant to be macro files.

CLI Usage

fennel-ls --lint my-file.fnl f2.fnl # prints diagnostics for the files given

This will analyze the given files, and print out all compiler errors and lints.

Default Settings

fennel-ls can be configured over LSP. Any setting that's not provided will be filled in with the defaults, which means that {} will be a valid configuration with default settings. You can provide different settings in the same shape as the default settings in order to override the defaults.

fennel-ls default settings:

{
  "fennel-ls": {
    "fennel-path": "./?.fnl;./?/init.fnl;src/?.fnl;src/?/init.fnl",
    "macro-path": "./?.fnl;./?/init-macros.fnl;./?/init.fnl;src/?.fnl;src/?/init-macros.fnl;src/?/init.fnl",
    "version": "lua54",
    "checks": {
      "unused-definition": true,
      "unknown-module-field": true,
      "unnecessary-method": true,
      "bad-unpack": true,
      "var-never-set": true,
      "op-with-no-arguments": true,
      "multival-in-middle-of-call": true
    },
    "native-libraries": []
    "extra-globals": ""
  }
}

extra-globals: Space separated list of allowed global identifiers; in addition to a set of predefined lua globals.

version: one of lua51, lua52, lua53, or lua54.

native-libraries: either [] or ["tic80"] for now. This setting controls which extra documentation fennel-ls can load in to your environment.

Your editor can send these settings using one of these two methods:

• The client sends an initialize request with the structure {initializationOptions: {"fennel-ls": {...}}, ...}
• The client sends a workspace/didChangeConfiguration notfication containing the field {settings: {"fennel-ls": {YOUR_SETTINGS}}}

License

fennel-ls is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more info. This project also contains files from other projects:

• fennel and deps/fennel.lua are compiled from fennel [MIT license]

• deps/faith.lua is from faith [MIT license]

• deps/pl/stringio.lua is from Penlight [MIT license]

• deps/dkjson.lua is from dkjson [MIT license]

• src/fennel-ls/docs/generated/* contains files generated from other sources. It contains information from:

  • the lua reference [MIT license]
  • TIC80's "learn" webpage [MIT license]