Nox is a lightweight, high-performance LSP client for Emacs
Nox is a LSP client for Emacs, code fork from eglot.
The project has three goals: 1. Function: only provide core functions, include code completion, jump definition, code references and rename 2. Design: Keep UX simple and clean, does not interfere user 3. Performance: cutting useless functions, optimizing code efficiency, ensure coding fluency
The Nox are considered to be a member of the Alliance of Four Great Races", along with the Alterans, Asgard, and Furlings.
My favorite a word from Nox:
Maybe one day you will learn, that your way is not the only way -- Anteaus
Nox depend on company-mode and posframe
Clone this repository and put nox.el in your load-path
Add below configure in your ~/.emacs
(require 'nox)(dolist (hook (list 'js-mode-hook 'rust-mode-hook 'python-mode-hook 'ruby-mode-hook 'java-mode-hook 'sh-mode-hook 'php-mode-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'c-mode-hook 'csharp-mode-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'haskell-mode-hook )) (add-hook hook '(lambda () (nox-ensure))))
Note: suggestion upgrade emacs to 27.x or 28.x, JSON parser much faster, and Nox completion will much smooth.
M-x noxcan guess and work out-of-the-box with these servers:
I'll add to this list as I test more servers. In the meantime you can customize
nox-server-programs:
(add-to-list 'nox-server-programs '(foo-mode . ("foo-language-server" "--args")))
Let me know how well it works and we can add it to the list.
To skip the guess and always be prompted use
C-u M-x nox.
The examples above use a "pipe" to talk to the server, which works fine on Linux and OSX but in some cases may not work on Windows.
To circumvent this limitation, or if the server doesn't like pipes, you can use
C-u M-x noxand give it
server:portpattern to connect to a previously started TCP server serving LSP information.
If you don't want to start it manually every time, you can configure Nox to start it and immediately connect to it. Ruby's solargraph server already works this way out-of-the-box.
For another example, suppose you also wanted start Python's
pylsthis way:
(add-to-list 'nox-server-programs `(python-mode . ("pyls" "-v" "--tcp" "--host" "localhost" "--port" :autoport)))
You can see that the element associated with
python-modeis now a more complicated invocation of the
pylsprogram, which requests that it be started as a server. Notice the
:autoportsymbol in there: it is replaced dynamically by a local port believed to be vacant, so that the ensuing TCP connection finds a listening server.
Most servers can guess good defaults and will operate nicely out-of-the-box, but some need to be configured specially via LSP interfaces. Additionally, in some situations, you may also want a particular server to operate differently across different projects.
Per-project settings are realized with Emacs's directory variables and the Elisp variable
nox-workspace-configuration. To make a particular Python project always enable Pyls's snippet support, put a file named
.dir-locals.elin the project's root:
((python-mode . ((nox-workspace-configuration . ((:pyls . (:plugins (:jedi_completion (:include_params t)))))))))
This tells Emacs that any
python-modebuffers in that directory should have a particular buffer-local value of
nox-workspace-configuration. That variable's value should be association list of parameter sections which are presumably understood by the server. In this example, we associate section
pylswith the parameters object
(:plugins (:jedi_completion (:include_params t))).
Now, supposing that you also had some Go code in the very same project, you can configure the Gopls server in the same file. Adding a section for
go-mode, the file's contents become:
((python-mode . ((nox-workspace-configuration . ((:pyls . (:plugins (:jedi_completion (:include_params t)))))))) (go-mode . ((nox-workspace-configuration . ((:gopls . (:usePlaceholders t)))))))
If you can't afford an actual
.dir-locals.elfile, or if managing these files becomes cumbersome, the Emacs manual teaches you programmatic ways to leverage per-directory local variables.
Some servers need even more special hand-holding to operate correctly. If your server has some quirk or non-conformity, it's possible to extend Nox via Elisp to adapt to it. Here's an example on how to get cquery working:
(add-to-list 'nox-server-programs '((c++ mode c-mode) . (nox-cquery "cquery")))(defclass nox-cquery (nox-lsp-server) () :documentation "A custom class for cquery's C/C++ langserver.")
(cl-defmethod nox-initialization-options ((server nox-cquery)) "Passes through required cquery initialization options" (let* ((root (car (project-roots (nox--project server)))) (cache (expand-file-name ".cquery_cached_index/" root))) (list :cacheDirectory (file-name-as-directory cache) :progressReportFrequencyMs -1)))
See
nox.el's section on Java's JDT server for an even more sophisticated example.
Having trouble connecting to a server? Expected to have a certain capability supported by it (e.g. completion) but nothing happens? Or do you get spurious and annoying errors in an otherwise smooth operation? We may have help, so open a new issue and try to be as precise and objective about the problem as you can:
Try to replicate the problem with as clean an Emacs run as possible. This means an empty
.emacsinit file or close to it (just loading
nox.el,
company.eland
yasnippet.elfor example, and you don't even need
use-package.elto do that).
Include the log of LSP events and the stderr output of the server (if any). You can find the former with
M-x nox-events-bufferand the latter with
M-x nox-stderr-buffer. You run these commands in the buffer where you enabled Nox, but if you didn't manage to enable Nox at all (because of some bootstrapping problem), you can still find these buffers in your buffer list: they're named like
*NOX / events*and
*NOX / stderr*.
If Emacs errored (you saw -- and possibly heard -- an error message), make sure you repeat the process using
M-x toggle-debug-on-errorso you get a backtrace of the error that you should also attach to the bug report.
Some more notes: it's understandable that you report it to Nox first, because that's the user-facing side of the LSP experience in Emacs, but the outcome may well be that you will have to report the problem to the server's developers, as is often the case. But the problem can very well be on Nox's side, of course, and in that case we want to fix it! Also bear in mind that Nox's developers have limited resources and no way to test all the possible server combinations, so you'll have to do most of the testing.
Here's a summary of available commands:
M-x nox, as described above;
M-x nox-reconnectreconnects to the server;
M-x nox-shutdownsays bye-bye to the server;
M-x nox-renameask the server to rename the symbol at point, if rename work, please use command
nox-stderr-buffer, must something rename tool not install, sch as python need
ropefor rename operation;
M-x nox-formatasks the server to format buffer or the active region;
M-x nox-show-docshow documentation for symbol at point.
M-x nox-events-bufferjumps to the events buffer for debugging communication with the server.
M-x nox-stderr-bufferif the LSP server is printing useful debug information in stderr, jumps to a buffer with these contents.
M-x nox-signal-didChangeConfigurationupdates the LSP server configuration according to the value of the variable
nox-workspace-configuration, which you may be set in a
.dir-localsfile, for example.
M-x xref-find-definitionsfind the definition of the identifier at point.
M-x xref-find-definitions-other-windowfind the definition of the identifier at point in other window.
M-x xref-pop-marker-stackpop bck to where xref-find-definitions last invoked.
M-x xref-find-referencesfind references to the identifier at point.
Here's a quick summary of the customization options. In Nox's customization group (
M-x customize-group) there is more documentation on what these do.
nox-doc-tooltip-font: The font for documentation tooltip, font format follow rule
fontname-fontsize.
nox-doc-tooltip-border-width: The border width of documentation tooltip.
nox-doc-tooltip-timeout: The timeout of documentation tooltip show time, default is 30 seconds, tooltip will hide after you change cursor point.
nox-doc-name: The name of documentation tooltip.
nox-candidate-annotation-limit: The width limit of candidate annotation.
nox-autoreconnect: Control ability to reconnect automatically to the LSP server;
nox-connect-timeout: Number of seconds before timing out LSP connection attempts;
nox-sync-connect: Control blocking of LSP connection attempts;
nox-events-buffer-size: Control the size of the Nox events buffer;
nox-ignored-server-capabilites: LSP server capabilities that Nox could use, but won't;
nox-confirm-server-initiated-edits: If non-nil, ask for confirmation before allowing server to edit the source buffer's text;
There are a couple more variables that you can customize via Emacs lisp:
nox-server-programs: as described above;
nox-strict-mode: Set to
nilby default, meaning Nox is generally lenient about non-conforming servers. Set this to
(disallow-non-standard-keys enforce-required-keys)when debugging servers.
nox-server-initialized-hook: Hook run after server is successfully initialized;
nox-managed-mode-hook: Hook run after Nox started or stopped managing a buffer. Use
nox-managed-pto tell if current buffer is still being managed.
nox-php-server: Language server for PHP, default is
intelephense, you can set with other value:
php-language-server
nox-omni-sharp-path: Language server path for OmniSharp, default is
~/.emacs.d/.cache/omnisharp/server/v1.34.5/OmniSharp.exe, you can set with other value.
nox-python-server: Language server for Python, default is
mspyls, you can set with other value:
pylsor
pyright.
If you choose
mspyls: 1. Execute command
nox-print-mspyls-download-urlget download url of mspyls. 2. Then extract to the directory ~/.emacs.d/nox/mspyls/ 3. Permission: ```sudo chmod -R +x ~/.emacs.d/nox/mspyls/
Note mspyls need index file before respond completion request, so please don't test single file under HOME directory, that will cost few minutes to index file, and
pylshaven't this problem.
nox-optimization-p: Improve performance by adjust GC limit and disable
bidi-display-reordering. If you don't need Nox set this, change this option to nil.