disable lsp for certain file types

[zenlor]

I have an annoying issue with LSP enabled for *.hcl files. By default hcl files are set to use terraform-ls but it usually is not right.
While it's true that a .tf has hcl syntax it's lsp setup is most likely wrong creating all sort of useless error reports.

Example:

This is an hcl file, it doesn't contain terraform resources and it's not part of a terraform module, it's a terragrunt configuration file that orchestrates a terraform module.

Overriding the hcl definition works but I would have to re-write another entry for actual tf files using the same options as hcl except the lsp configuration.

Is there another way to split file extensions in different language entries? Should I simply remove .hcl extension from the hcl filetype definition?

[zenlor]

Looks like I found a workaround. I'm modifying the tfvars language to include tf file extension while removing it from the hcl language:

[[language]]
name = "hcl"
file-types = ["hcl", "nomad"]
language-servers = []

[[language]]
name = "tfvars"
file-types = ["tf", "tfvars"]

The question still stands, is there a cleaner way to "inherit" (lacking a better word) a language definition overriding some of it's definitions?

[selvmaya]

I couldn't get it to work myself for my use case (*.conf interpreted as xml except without LSP), but this discussion creates a language based on the (tree-sitter) grammar of another among other options.

See also #3479 (comment).