# Using LanguageServer.jl with eglot in emacs

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-languageserver-jl-with-eglot-in-emacs/23125>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Tags:** editors, emacs\
**Created:** [April 14, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-languageserver-jl-with-eglot-in-emacs/23125 "2019-04-14T01:46:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-languageserver-jl-with-eglot-in-emacs/23125/88 "2023-06-01T13:45:52Z")

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I try to go through discourse every few months and see if there’s any `eglot-jl`-related questions I missed. Apologies for not replying here sooner. This is a [limitation of LanguageServer.jl](https://github.com/julia-vscode/LanguageServer.jl/issues/988) which is discussed along with possible workarounds here:

> [@LSP "Missing reference" woes](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lsp-missing-reference-woes/98231/16):
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> First, be aware it’s very hacky and messes up a bit with inline evaluation (which I don’t use much because I actually use Emacs for my day-to-day work). But let me try and give a step-by-step procedure that demonstrates this trick on a simple package like Example.jl. You should be able to reproduce this on your system. First, git clone https://github.com/JuliaLang/Example.jl, open the project in VSCode and add a script.jl file at its root. It should look like this: Example.jl ├── Project.toml …

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