Merge #2928

2928: Provide better diagnostics if the server is not in path r=matklad a=matklad



Co-authored-by: Aleksey Kladov <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/editors/code/src/client.ts b/editors/code/src/client.ts
index 1ff64a930..15e1a0873 100644
--- a/editors/code/src/client.ts
+++ b/editors/code/src/client.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,13 @@ export function createClient(config: Config): lc.LanguageClient {
 
     const command = expandPathResolving(config.raLspServerPath);
     if (spawnSync(command, ["--version"]).status !== 0) {
-        window.showErrorMessage(`Unable to execute '${command} --version'`);
+        window.showErrorMessage(
+            `Unable to execute '${command} --version'
+
+Perhaps it is not in $PATH?
+
+PATH=${process.env.PATH}
+`);
     }
     const run: lc.Executable = {
         command,