Token based Highlighting vs. Self Containing Extensions

[cdietrich]

Since (as given by VSCode as example) textMate Grammars seem to be a defacto standard for doing token/grammar based highlighting we have a "thing" in lsp that prevents us from language servers beeing self contained. we always need a side channel to provide the text mate grammars as vscode does it through the configuration in package.json.

it would be nice to have a service in the protocol that allows the servers to deliver the grammars to the client or alternatively a service that does grammar based highlighting server side.

[mickaelistria]

I believe it's a duplicate of #18.

[cdietrich]

no i explicitely mean a token based highlighting that is "fast" and may be done on client side

[svenefftinge]

It is a duplicate of #7.

[dbaeumer]

Thanks @svenefftinge. It is a dup of #7. I think if we open up the protocol for sematic classification then we can also support syntax classification. However syntax classification has the pre-requisite that it has to be fast and accurate during typing. So this must be defined in a clever way.

Dups #7 and #18. Lets continue the discussion in #18.