opt in to plain-text hover formatting

[jdtsmith]

Some LSP servers like pyright utilize HTML entities, escaping, etc. in their markdown-formatted response to hover requests, resulting in rather garbled display. It would be useful to be able to configure eglot to request plaintext only for such servers, even if markdown-mode and its gfm-view-mode are installed. Here's what it ends up looking like:

compared to plaintext:

[jdtsmith]

I'm happy to submit a PR if there is interest. Particularly bad case here.

[doolio]

Hey JD, did you ever put together a solution to this issue?

[jdtsmith]

I didn't, but it shouldn't be too bad. This config basically enables markdown docs if they can be viewed in Emacs. Just adding a new config variable to disable that on request would work.

[doolio]

OK thanks.

[d-miketa]

Thank you for diagnosing this issue, it's been bugging me for some time. Are you still open to submitting a PR with the proposed solution?

[joaotavora]

Yes, but submit it as a patch instead to Emacs's lisp/progmodes/eglot.el and send it to ***@***.*** Make sure to CC: me (or better, X-Debbugs-CC: me) in the email as I don't follow the bug-reporting list regularly. João

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[doolio]

A related discussion from which one could argue that this issue would be best resolved in markdown-mode rather than Eglot?

[jdtsmith]

I submitted a simple patch that adds a new customization eglot-prefer-plaintext: bug#61373 (@joaotavora I don't have your email to copy).

[joaotavora]

It's in the file you edited.

[jdtsmith]

Copied you in.

[joaotavora]

Let's follow up in bug#61373

[LionyxML]

Hello there João (@joaotavora)!

Sorry to ressurect this topic and mess with your memory.

Just as a follow up (and maybe for some future one also getting into here). I followed the discussion on this bug, it led to two others, that let to other stuff and I got out of track.

So this feature actually moved to eldoc and won't be implemented by eglot, right?

Like, if I want to use Emacs and nothing else and get to stuff like this into eglot:

Could you give me a hint on how to strip down stuff like ```?

I saw somewhere else that some servers like "R" can actually provide documentation text in other formats but for those that cannot I am finding hard to actually configure `eldoc-documentation-function.

Any help would me much appreciated, thanks.