Zig files go to zls as a child process through the protocol client, as every other language does: the in-process ZLS backend goes

lsp_zls.zig (1,522 lines), the zls dependency, build.zig's zls wiring and the import graph it baked into the options only for it, and main.zig's reference go. lsp_client's table gains a zls row (PARDES_LSP_ZIG overrides it); Hover, Rename, Diagnostics, WsSymbols, Lspinfo and gd answer through it (checked with lspprobe and the snapshots against zls 0.16.1-dev). What changes for a user: zls must be on PATH; a completion's rows are zls's candidates at the cursor, where the linked analyser gave each one's declaration; document symbols carry no signature. The Zig snapshots (lsp, lspcomplete, lspcompletemoved, lspdebug, lsprelpath) run the real zls now: lspdebug reads the client's explain and report, lsprelpath spells gr's rows where it spelled a completion's, and their goldens are recorded again (stable over three runs). Lspinfo still opens with its backend line. The ReleaseFast tty binary is 105.35 MB to 96.28 MB, the Debug one 296.5 MB to 245.9 MB. docs/lsp.md, web.md, design.typ and the README say so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/test/snapshots/lspdebug.snap b/test/snapshots/lspdebug.snap
index ab330a76..3aca07cc 100644
--- a/test/snapshots/lspdebug.snap
+++ b/test/snapshots/lspdebug.snap
@@ -21,10 +21,8 @@ snap plainclick
 text 3gg1g|
 stable 400 10000
 key space l w
-wait 10000 parsed 122 bytes, 0 syntax error(s)
-wait 10000 position context: .empty
-wait 10000 STOP: nothing to resolve
-wait 10000 0 row(s)
+wait 10000 lsp explain — the definition query
+wait 10000 row(s)
 key space w j
 key space d
 stable 700 15000
@@ -32,20 +30,15 @@ snap why-closed
 
 # Check the report's answers, not installed compiler paths or dependency counts.
 key space l i
-wait 10000 backend: zls-inproc+lsp-client
-wait 10000 compiled in
-wait 10000 [OK]
-wait 10000 offsets: utf-8
+wait 10000 backend: lsp-client
+wait 10000 protocol servers (lsp-client):
+wait 10000 zls
 key space w j
 key /
-text last queries
+text client queries
 key enter
-wait 10000 last queries
-wait 10000 definition             z.zig
-# The results pane the search opened takes the bottom half, which leaves the
-# report one row short of its second query: step the cursor past it.
-key j j j
-wait 10000 explain                z.zig
+wait 10000 client queries
+wait 10000 definition
 # the report sits between the source and the results, so Del asks where its
 # rows go: k, back to the source above
 key space d