To install this package, run in Emacs:
M-x package-install RET jarchive RET
Jarchive teaches emacs how to open project dependencies that reside inside jar files.
This package is still under active development, but should be relatively stable. Any important or breaking changes will now be noted in the CHANGELOG.
It current works well with eglot on the Emacs master branch. I've also included a patch for legacy versions of eglot that are not yet up to date with Emacs master.
See the CHANGELOG for more information.
This package is available on ELPA. There is also an example of a guix recipe.
After installing this package, in your config call jarchive-setup
:
emacs-lisp
(jarchive-setup)
or it can be called interactively, via M-x jarchive-setup
.
jarchive-setup
Some Emacs distributions like Doom (and many personal configurations), set the file-name-handler-alist
var to nil on startup, then restore it's value when startup is complete.
If this is the case for you, jarchive-setup
should be called AFTER everything is initialized, using (with-eval-after-load "init" (jarchive-setup))
, where "init"
refers to your "init.el"
file.
This package modifies file-name-handler-alist
, so it relies on it _not_ being reset after jarchive-setup
is invoked.
Jarchive will open jar dependencies provided to Eglot by lsp servers.
If you are using an older version of Eglot, like the melpa version released on 2022-10-20, then you need to call jarchive-patch-eglot
after Eglot is loaded, like so
emacs-lisp
(jarchive-patch-eglot)
This is _not_ required on newer versions of eglot. Installs that are up to date with eglot on ELPA devel or eglot bundled with emacs 29 will work without patching. This patch function is included so those on older releases of eglot can also take advantage of this package. Eventually it will be removed (with some advanced notice).
With it enabled, things like this will open up page.clj
in a read-only buffer.
emacs-lisp
(find-file "jar:file:///.m2/repository/hiccup/hiccup/1.0.5/hiccup-1.0.5.jar!/hiccup/page.clj")
When using eglot connected to a JVM language server, invoking xref-find-definitions
should correctly open any dependencies that reside in JAR files.
If you want eglot to manage the opened jar'd file in your project's current lsp session, set
emacs-lisp
(setq eglot-extend-to-xref t)
This will allow xref to work across your project and the opened file.
If you do not want that, the eglot will probably start a new server to manage the newly opened file.
There are legitimate reasons to do this, because including it in the current LSP session will mean it is included when looking up references.
Large files, like the clojure core library, could create a lot of noise in xref lookups.
Another recommendation if you don't want them managed by eglot is to set
emacs-lisp
(setq eglot-autoshutdown t)
so that the transient lsp server that is started when opening the file is closed along with it.
I personally only test Jarchive with clojure-lsp.
Users report that Jarchive works well with the Java LSP server java-language-server.
I do know that it does not work with JDTLS
at them moment, which requires all clients to implement custom language server extensions and a complicated non-standard URI scheme to open files in JARs.
Any language server that provides jar: scheme URIs should be picked up by this package. If it doesn't, please let me know and I'd be happy to take a look.
Questions and patches can be submitted to the mailing list.
Bugs can be submitted here: bug tracker. Any bugs found should include steps to reproduce. If possible, and example repository containing a project and instructions (or a nix shell) for installing the language servers would be appreciated.
jarchive-0.9.0.tar.lz | 2022-Dec-08 | 5.61 KiB |
jarchive-0.8.0.tar.lz | 2022-Nov-14 | 5.50 KiB |
jarchive-0.6.0.tar.lz | 2022-Nov-13 | 5.38 KiB |
jarchive-0.3.0.tar.lz | 2022-Nov-13 | 5.41 KiB |
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in the name jarchive-setup
.
(with-eval-after-load 'eglot (jarchive-patch-eglot))
now in their config instead.jarchive-patch-eglot
attempts to print warnings when it is called at the wrong time.jar:file:///path/to/library.jar!/path/in/jar/source.ext
zipfile:///path/to/library.jar::/path/in/jar/source.ext
jarchive-move-to-visiting-project
eglot-extend-to-xref
instead, or use M-x write-file
to save where you like.jarchive--managed-mode
eglot-extend-to-xref
is working properly.