[Help] Marksman not working in Helix on Arch

[ghost]

I have no idea what is happening, but marksman does not work (none of its features). I have installed marksman-bin from AUR. I also have this in .config/marksman/config.toml :

[core]
markdown.file_extensions = ["md", "markdown"]
text_sync = "full"

[code_action]
# Enable/disable "Table of Contents" code action
toc.enable = true

# Enable/disable "Create missing linked file" code action
create_missing_file.enable = true

[completion]
# The style of wiki links completion.
# Other values include: 
# * "file-stem" to complete using file name without an extension,
# * "file-path-stem" same as above but using file path.
# title-slug
wiki.style = "file-stem"

Output of helix --health markdown:

Configured language servers:
  ✓ marksman: /usr/bin/marksman
Configured debug adapter: None
Highlight queries: ✓
Textobject queries: ✘
Indent queries: ✘

[artempyanykh]

Hi @bambirombi ! Could you provide more details? Did it work before but doesn't work after an update? What version marksman --version are you using?

When you say 'nothing works' do you mean the server is crashing? Or does it mean that you e.g. is not getting document symbols (Space-s)?

Any additional information you can provide, please.

[ghost]

marksman --version: 1.0.0-dd5b4f5

I do not remember when it stopped working because it has been some months since I have used marksman.

With nothing works I mean that I cannot literally do anything. So, for example, wikilinks or markdown links are never completed and space+k that made possible to preview a wikilink also does not work. At least, of the features I used nothing works.

When doing space + s : No configured language server supports document symbols.

[artempyanykh]

Hm, without logs it's hard to tell. @bambirombi could you look into Helix's logs if there's something suspicious there, e.g. tail -f ~/.cache/helix/helix.log?

[ghost]

2023-11-27T21:59:22.465 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[21:59:22 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2023-11-27T22:01:54.451 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[22:01:54 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2023-11-27T22:10:01.942 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[22:10:01 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2023-11-27T22:10:02.688 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: No configured language server supports document symbols
2023-11-28T16:00:58.109 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[16:00:57 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2023-11-28T16:00:58.756 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: No configured language server supports document symbols
2023-11-28T16:03:42.100 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[16:03:41 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2023-11-28T16:07:11.051 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: No configured language server supports document symbols
2023-11-28T16:07:17.914 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: No configured language server supports document symbols
2023-11-28T16:07:26.180 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: No configured language server supports document symbols

[arcstur]

I'm also using the marksman-bin from AUR and it's working (and I copied your config to test it). But marksman from the official repo stopped working because dotnet-runtime upgraded from 7 to 8, and marksman needed version 7. Are you sure you're using the marksman-bin from AUR and not marksman from extra/ repository?

[ghost]

It is the AUR version. So, no idea what is happening... I have reinstalled archlinux but marksman continues to fail.

[artempyanykh]

Oh, I missed that this is on Arch. Anyhow, couple ideas:

1. Latest release https://github.com/artempyanykh/marksman/releases/tag/2023-12-07 is now built with dotnet 8 which may unbork marksman from the official repo (what @arcstur mentioned above).
2. Can you download and run pre-built binary from the Assets of the release? Does it give you any errors on the command line?

[ghost]

The AUR is now the latest version.

I have tryed running the pre-built, the output: 01:59:38 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}

[nhat-tien]

I have same problem on Ubuntu 22.04, it doesn't work even though I tried both the version from Snap and the pre-built version

[David-Else]

The latest binary seems to work fine in Helix on Linux (Debian 12) https://github.com/artempyanykh/marksman/releases/tag/2023-12-09

[ghost]

I have installed last version again and nothing works...

[Koba0117]

I have a similar problem, using helix and arch.
I am using marksman from the official arch repo.
Neither AUR version nor prebuilt bin work.

~ ❯ marksman --version
1.0.0-ff58abb+ff58abb61c6161d3f7b82619fe01d2f4bc839b94
~ ❯ dotnet --list-runtimes
Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.0 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
~ ❯ hx --version
helix 23.10
~ ❯ uname -r
6.6.9-arch1-1

helix.log is here

~ ❯ tail -f ~/.cache/helix/helix.log
2024-01-04T19:14:14.426 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[19:14:14 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2024-01-04T19:27:16.324 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: 1 unsaved buffer(s) remaining: ["test.md"]
2024-01-04T19:27:29.197 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[19:27:29 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2024-01-05T16:38:52.638 helix_view::editor [ERROR] Failed to initialize the language servers for `source.toml` - `taplo` { cannot find binary path }
2024-01-05T16:39:05.860 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[16:39:05 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2024-01-05T16:40:29.724 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[16:40:29 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2024-01-05T16:43:33.507 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[16:43:33 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2024-01-05T16:43:49.691 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[16:43:49 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2024-01-05T16:47:03.459 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[16:47:03 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"
2024-01-05T16:49:38.265 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] marksman err <- "[16:49:38 INF] <LSP Entry> Starting Marksman LSP server: {}\n"

[ccellado]

Same here on macos Sonoma with brew

Binary does not work too

[Koba0117]

Yeah same for me.
To check if this is an os specific problem, I installed marksman on my macbook too but it didn't work either.

MacBook-Air-M1 ~> marksman --version
1.0.0-2023-12-09
MacBook-Air-M1 ~> hx --version
helix 23.10 (f6021dd0)

os version is sonoma 14.2.1 (darwin 23.2.0)

I don't know if this is a problem of marksman or of helix.

[artempyanykh]

@Koba0117 @ccellado could you try with a different editor? This may help determine if the problem is specific to helix or there's something in your environment that messes up with marksman regardless of the editor/lsp-client.

[nhat-tien]

I once faced this problem, i forgot to add .marksman.toml to my workspace. I added it, and now marksman works fine

[Koba0117]

@artempyanykh
I just didn't RTFM.
After adding a toml file or doing git init, it works without problems for both arch and mac.
I am very sorry for wasting your time.
(Though referencing and auto-complete work fine now, I still get error in helix.log when I open markdown files)

[artempyanykh]

No worries @Koba0117! Glad to hear the problem's resolved.

I still get error in helix.log when I open markdown files

Could you show the error?

[Koba0117]

@artempyanykh
I opened a new issue because this is probably unrelated to this issue.