# LSP: documentation not shown for used packages
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202
**Category:** Tooling
**Created:** [January 24, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202 "2024-01-24T16:14:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202/1 "2024-01-24T16:14:52Z")
Sublime Text (4) + LSP-julia.
Documentation is available for functions and types from standard packages (or base), but not from other used packages. Case at hand: [GitHub - PetrKryslUCSD/VibrationGEPHelpers.jl: Generalized Eigenvalue Problem helper functions](https://github.com/PetrKryslUCSD/VibrationGEPHelpers.jl).
But:
(From ArnoldiMethod.jl)
(From Arpack.jl)
Structure of package:
Is this is a known problem? With a solution (😉 )?
Edit: Tested with VSCode: all works. LinearMap, partialschur, … I am not sure, but I think VSCode does not use LSP-julia(?). Is the problem there?
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### Author:  [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202/2 "2024-01-25T08:05:41Z")
The core implementation of the Language Server Protocol for Julia is [GitHub - julia-vscode/LanguageServer.jl: An implementation of the Microsoft Language Server Protocol for the Julia language.](https://github.com/julia-vscode/LanguageServer.jl)
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202/3 "2024-01-30T01:56:25Z")
For sure. However I do believe there are differences in the _clients_: VSCode behaves differently from ST (4). Tested on precisely the same package, ST (4) fails to display symbols for certain dependencies, while VSCode handles all well.
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### Author:  [@ffevotte](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ffevotte)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202/4 "2024-01-30T07:39:46Z")
That’s interesting. As another data point, it seems to work for Emacs as well:
This is [`eglot-jl`](https://github.com/non-Jedi/eglot-jl) with an up-to-date LanguageServer:
```julia
(eglot-jl-20221128.1655) pkg> st
Status `~/.emacs.d/elpa/eglot-jl-20221128.1655/Project.toml`
[2b0e0bc5] LanguageServer v4.5.0
[cf896787] SymbolServer v7.3.0
```
I’m relatively familiar with the `eglot-jl` code base, and almost positive that it does not do anything fancy: simply starts the LanguageServer and communicate with it. So I’m not sure what could be missing in SublimeText and its LSP extension.
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202/5 "2024-01-30T18:14:40Z")
> [@ffevotte](#):
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> So I’m not sure what could be missing in SublimeText and its LSP extension.
I do not know that either, but I do see that the editor does not do the same thing as VSCode. Since I believe they share the same implementation of the server component (LanguageServer.jl), I think that difference would be in the code that handles the communication on the client side.
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### Author:  [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 10:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202/6 "2024-01-31T10:28:46Z")
The main questions are what environment ST/VS Code/emacs use for package resolution in this specific case, and whether that environment is instantiated.
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### Author:  [@ffevotte](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ffevotte)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202/7 "2024-01-31T11:14:01Z")
Good point, thanks!
In case that helps fixing things in SublimeText, this is how `eglot-jl` determines the project path that the `LanguageServer` will use:
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(In this code, `src_path` refers to the directory of the source file currently being edited)
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### Author:  [@Tetrakai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tetrakai)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-documentation-not-shown-for-used-packages/109202/8 "2024-12-07T22:57:05Z")
I just ran into this same issue. Is there a fix?