# Lsp-julia (Emacs) not detecting installed packages. (And REPL extra)
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-julia-emacs-not-detecting-installed-packages-and-repl-extra/60837
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** emacs, languageserver
**Created:** [May 9, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-julia-emacs-not-detecting-installed-packages-and-repl-extra/60837 "2021-05-09T18:41:30Z")
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### Author:  [@Qfl3x](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Qfl3x)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-julia-emacs-not-detecting-installed-packages-and-repl-extra/60837/1 "2021-05-09T18:41:30Z")
[Using Doom Emacs]
I’ve been trying to setup my Doom Emacs install, while I’ve managed to make lsp-mode work with Julia through this small piece:
```julia
(after! julia-mode
(add-hook! 'julia-mode-hook
(setq-local lsp-enable-folding t
lsp-folding-range-limit 100)))
```
I haven’t managed to make lsp detect the installed packages. I’ve setup my `lsp-julia-default-environment’ to mine but it still doesn’t work.
Doom Emacs uses `lsp-julia` package for Emacs.
REPL extra: (Maybe an extra thread?) I frequently work with Julia in multithreaded mode but the startup delay and memory footprintm makes it so I don’t want it to be the default option every time I want to tinker with something. I’ve found that I could setup several possible Julia executables [here](https://github.com/tpapp/julia-repl), but I don’t know how to make it so the second one spawns a Julia REPL with the `-p` option.
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### Author:  [@Satvik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Satvik)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-julia-emacs-not-detecting-installed-packages-and-repl-extra/60837/2 "2021-05-09T19:01:10Z")
It’s not a direct answer, but I’ve found `eglot-jl` a bit easier to get working in Doom than `lsp-mode`: [GitHub - non-Jedi/eglot-jl: Wrapper for using Julia LanguageServer.jl with emacs eglot](https://github.com/non-Jedi/eglot-jl)
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### Author:  [@Satvik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Satvik)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2021, 5:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-julia-emacs-not-detecting-installed-packages-and-repl-extra/60837/3 "2021-05-10T05:50:40Z")
To add some detail, with eglot-jl you can just set: `(setq eglot-jl-language-server-project "path/to/my/project")`
With lsp it should be `lsp-julia-default-environment`
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### Author:  [@Qfl3x](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Qfl3x)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2021, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-julia-emacs-not-detecting-installed-packages-and-repl-extra/60837/4 "2021-05-10T10:08:35Z")
Managed to make both work but I have issues with both:
1- `eglot` is slow when dealing with out-of-file declarations that have been included or imported.
2- `lsp-julia`’s indexing takes ages and apparently I have to do it every time I update my install. It’s also not light on the CPU in normal workload.
It appears the thing I need to really change is my CPU in all this. Thanks @Satvik !