alt Hacker NewsCome on what are we talking about. Ruff is a linter. Can you show me any LSP server that can move an arbitrary function from file1.ts to file2.ts based on calling it on the command line?
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I've had decent results telling agents to use emacs for structural editing operations. Pretty rare that I need to move a function across files verbatim but that should only be a few extra lines of elisp.
not sure if Go pls supports moving between files, but it does have some sophisticated edit features
https://go.dev/gopls/features/transformation
it does look to have a method for moving a function to a new file
I give my agent access to go pls and find it overall beneficial, based on vibes eval. Its way easier to ask LSP everywhere a function or field is used versus grep, saves a lot of tokens
They're not command line applications, they use JSON-RPC inline, and it's an interactive flow, so you need the client to actually persist state.
So what you'd see in the LLM traces, for example, is a couple back-and-forths using JSON-RPC. It absolutely works at the moment, and claude code will happily use it if everything is set up correctly, just tested it using https://github.com/typescript-language-server/typescript-lan...