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autocompletion with love2d engine #516
Description
Hello,
I build a game with the love2d engine. The game is written in lua so I tried to use emacs lsp-lua
with this lua language server.
Here is an example of a "hello world" game :
local love = require "love"
function love.draw()
love.graphics.print("Hello World", 400, 300)
endThis "game" is run with the love engine : love.exe directory\where\is\the\file
The "require" line is not mandatory for the game to start, I put it because otherwise the lua language server
considers "love" as undefined. When I put it, I assume the lua language server picks up the "love.dll" which
is in the same directory as "love.exe".
However, autocompletion does not seem to work as for regular lua package. I noticed that I am only
proposed the "love" fields and functions which are already used in the script.
How can I improve this ?
Regards
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ImpleLee commentedon Apr 19, 2021
The language server can only parse lua file, so I think maybe you should use a library file. For example, you can use Emmy Lua LOVE API, or you can use my fork which I think is much more complete than the original one and still under active maintenance.
deb75 commentedon Apr 27, 2021
Hi,
Thanks very much, I will try your fork as soon as possible.
Regards
nayibor commentedon Aug 30, 2025
i managed to get auto completion working using emacs.
these link helped.
https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/wiki/Libraries.
emacs-lsp/lsp-mode#2818
in the end i had to modify my emacs init file and add the workspace library like below.
you can also place a .luarc.json configuration file in your project folder which also works