Bash language server for Micro editor
Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:57:57 +0100
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I use micro  as my terminal text  editor. I'm not in  love with gui
text editors or IDE's. One thing I was missing is a language server
plugin until I found mlsp:

https://github.com/Andriamanitra/mlsp/

Although the author  states it is unfinished, it works  for me. The
default installation  doesn't use a  Bash language server  but it's
easily fixed.

I installed bash-language-server, and added a link "bashls" to this
executable. 

yay -S bash-language-server
doas ln -s /usr/bin/bash-language-server /usr/bin/bashls

Then in .config/micro/plug/mlsp/config.lua I added:

languageServer = {
    bashls = {
        cmd = "bashls",
        args = {"start"},
        filetypes = {"shell","sh","bash"}
    },

...

    defaultLanguageServer = {
        shell      = languageServer.bashls,

Now with F7  I can start the bash language  server, and use various
commands, for example F8 formats the script in the current buffer.





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