Glossary

Being a language server, it’s inevitable that details of the Language Server Protocol will leak into Esbonio’s usage and documentation.

Below is a list of commonly used terms and their meaning.

LSP

Language Server Protocol

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier.

URIs are used by the language server protocol to describe locations of local and remote files and folders, and even individual cells in a notebook document. e.g.

• file:///home/path/to/file.txt

• vscode-vfs://github@develop/swyddfa/esbonio/README.md

• nb-cell-scheme://path/to/notebook.ipynb#cv32321

workspace

Refers to project folder(s) that are currently open in the user’s editor.

workspace folder

Some clients (like VSCode) support multiple project folders within a single application instance e.g.

• /path/to/Apps/TextWriter

• /path/to/Libraries/libtext

The term workspace folder refers to a single project folder.