Language Server Protocol and Implementation: Supporting Language-Smart Editing and Programming Tools

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N. Gunasinghe, N. MarcusLanguage Server Protocol and Implementationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7792-8_5

5. Text Synchronization

Nadeeshaan Gunasinghe¹   and Nipuna Marcus²

(1)

Walahanduwa, Sri Lanka

(2)

Mawathagama, Sri Lanka

 

In this chapter, we are going to have a look at text synchronization capabilities available in the Language Server Protocol. When the user opens a document in the client (editor/IDE), source editing is initiated through the client. Clients are responsible for syncing the source content with the file system or maintaining an in-memory copy. Not all clients automatically sync the source content periodically with the file system. Clients ...