Question: Purpose of unused language servers in languages.toml

[jbirnick]

languages.toml defines some language servers which are not used in the defaults.

For example, it contains the pyright and basedpyright language servers. But they are not used as default language servers for Python, and in fact they are not used anywhere else in the repo.

[language-server]
pyright = { command = "pyright-langserver", args = ["--stdio"], config = {} }
basedpyright = { command = "basedpyright-langserver", args = ["--stdio"], config = {} }

What's the purpose of this? Does it allow me to add the basedpyright language server more easily compared to language servers which are not at all present in this file? If so, how?

[the-mikedavis]

This is just to make it easier to add these servers to your local configuration if you want to use them. For example you can use

# ~/.config/helix/languages.toml
[[language]]
name = "python"
language-servers = ["pyright"]

To use Pyright without having to also specify the entry in [language-server] in your config.