A guide on disabling/enabling lsp-mode features

Early in the project, we decided to auto-configure/enable all of the stable features by default in order to improve discoverability and simplify the setup for the beginners. This decision was considered good by the majority of the users coming from IDEs but still in Emacs community there are a lot of people looking for a minimal distraction-free experience especially traditional long time users. Although the turn off defcustom settings are documented in corresponding README and available via customize-group it turned out that it is not very easy to find them when you want to turn a particular feature off which led to a lot of frustration. Hopefully, this article will help solving that issue:

1. Symbol highlighting

(setq lsp-enable-symbol-highlighting nil)

2. lsp-ui-doc - on hover dialogs. * disable via

(setq lsp-ui-doc-enable nil)

* disable cursor hover (keep mouse hover)

(setq lsp-ui-doc-show-with-cursor nil)

* disable mouse hover (keep cursor hover)

(setq lsp-ui-doc-show-with-mouse nil)

3. Lenses

(setq lsp-lens-enable nil)

4. Headerline

(setq lsp-headerline-breadcrumb-enable nil)

5. Sideline code actions * disable whole sideline via

(setq lsp-ui-sideline-enable nil)

* hide code actions

(setq lsp-ui-sideline-show-code-actions nil)

6. Sideline hover symbols * disable whole sideline via

(setq lsp-ui-sideline-enable nil)

* hide only hover symbols

(setq lsp-ui-sideline-show-hover nil)

7. Modeline code actions

(setq lsp-modeline-code-actions-enable nil)

8. Flycheck (or flymake if no flycheck is present)

(setq lsp-diagnostics-provider :none)

9. Sideline diagnostics * disable whole sideline via

(setq lsp-ui-sideline-enable nil)

* hide only errors

(setq lsp-ui-sideline-show-diagnostics nil)

10. Eldoc

(setq lsp-eldoc-enable-hover nil)

11. Modeline diagnostics statistics

(setq lsp-modeline-diagnostics-enable nil)

12. Signature help

(setq lsp-signature-auto-activate nil) ;; you could manually request them via `lsp-signature-activate`

13. Signature help documentation (keep the signatures)

(setq lsp-signature-render-documentation nil)

14. Completion (company-mode)

(setq lsp-completion-provider :none)

15. Completion item detail

(setq lsp-completion-show-detail nil)

16. Completion item kind

(setq lsp-completion-show-kind nil)

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Last update: December 20, 2024

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