[HN Gopher] Merlin: Context sensitive completion for OCaml in Vi...
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       Merlin: Context sensitive completion for OCaml in Vim and Emacs
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2022-05-05 07:18 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | yawaramin wrote:
       | Just to add to what anuragsoni said--Merlin is basically obsolete
       | now, use the OCaml Language Server instead.
        
         | anuragsoni wrote:
         | Merlin is not obsolete. OCaml-lsp depends on Merlin for one. It
         | is also a really nice option on its own, specially for people
         | on vim or emacs.
        
         | legobmw99 wrote:
         | I find it hard to say something has been obsoleted by a tool
         | which depends on the former to function
        
       | tempodox wrote:
       | Merlin also supports renaming symbols in scope, showing the type
       | of an expression, go-to-definition, and more. I wouldn't want to
       | live without it.
        
       | anuragsoni wrote:
       | If you are using vscode or any other editor that supports the
       | Language Server Protocol [1], ocaml has an excellent LSP offering
       | [2] now that is built on top of merlin. There is a vscode plugin
       | available as well [3].
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       | [1] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
       | 
       | [2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-lsp/
       | 
       | [3]
       | https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ocamllab...
        
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