Protobuf support doesn't work out-of-the-box…?

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It sounds to me that protobuf "should just work". Docs link to "protols" https://github.com/coder3101/protols while the code references:

protobuf-language-server:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/114c4621433eb948b87fa5f4f41df8af6601f66e/extensions/proto/src/proto.rs

With this plugin installed I just get

Language server error: protobuf-language-server

protobuf-language-server not found in PATH
-- stderr--

I now installed a "protols" unto path with nix:

which protols
/run/current-system/sw/bin/protols

and stuck that into settings as:

"lsp": {
    ...
    "protobuf-language-server": {
      "binary": {
        "path": "protols"
      }
    }
}

Am I misunderstanding what's needed here? Otherwise, maybe that should go into the docs page over at https://zed.dev/docs/languages/proto

Environment

Zed: v0.162.5 (Zed)
OS: macOS 15.1.0
Memory: 64 GiB
Architecture: aarch64

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[SturdyFool10]

its an extension called proto IIRC

[notpeter]

Yeah, docs need some love. I tried to add some formatting docs as the docs very sparse but I incorrectly added the link to ProtoLS (oops).

Extension was originally written with protobuf-language-server in mind, protols is not super well tested. I've commented out the part of the docs I'm less sure about until I have a chance to test further next week.

Thanks for reporting.