A.4.8 Go Language Server

Gopls is the official language server protocol (lsp) implementation provided by the Go team. It is intended to replace the existing third party tools for code formatting (gofmt), automatic imports (goimports), code navigation (godef/guru), type and function descriptions (godoc/godef), error checking, auto completion (gocode), variable and type renaming (rename), and more. Once gopls is stable the older tools will no longer be supported.

Gopls is a supported backend for lsp-mode. It will be used automatically by lsp-mode if gopls is found in your ‘PATH’. You can install gopls via:

go get golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest

To enable lsp-mode for go buffers:

(add-hook 'go-mode-hook 'lsp-deferred)