Language server does not start when configured with Nvim LSP

[DanielPower]

I've tried the following installations:

• 1.0.2 from Cargo
• 1.0.2 from Arch User Repository
• 1.0.3 installed via nvim-lsp-installer (by modifying their install script, since their parser hasn't been updated for the new file name structure in 1.0.3).

LspInfo shows that the file I have open is of filetype: beancount. And it shows that the language server is executable, and set to autostart. But it does not start. Additionally, if I run LspStart beancount manually, nothing happens.

I'm not aware of any logs that might have any relevant information, but would appreciate it if you have any advice.

Attached is the config I'm passing to lspconfig.

I'm not sure what the journalFile is supposed to refer to. So that could be the problem, since mine is blank. If that needs to be populated, what should I point it to?

[polarmutex]

journal_file is the root or initial file for your beancount journal. Basically the file you pass into the beancount Cli

There is no way that I know to find all definitions of accounts and payees for completions from opening a beancount file(I split my transactions in many files). So I need
To improve the error handling of this case. But for many they have just one file so I should use the current open file if none exists. I will look into improving this

[DanielPower]

Oh, that makes sense. In that case I do think it would make sense to use the current file if none is provided, since many people (myself included) use a single massive ledger file.

I did actually try setting journalFile to the absolute path to my ledger, and that didn't work. Perhaps it needs to be a path relative to the root? I'll try that later today.

Thanks for your quick response! I'm new to Beancount. Just migrated my Gnucash over a couple days ago. Plaintext accounting is very exciting, and I appreciate your work to streamline the experience!

Edit: And once I get it working, I'll put up a PR against nvim-lsp-installer to fix the downloading, if they haven't already done so by then :)

[polarmutex]

I forgot that in the rust rewrite I renamed it to "journal_file". try that, I just prefer snake case to camel

[DanielPower]

Ah, that's almost definitely it. I'll try it when I get home.

[DanielPower]

That did it. Thank you!

[dustinfarris]

is there a replacement for pythonPath as well?