Ability to enable Metals for only a subset of projects

[armanbilge]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Builds may contain many (sub-)projects. E.g. 10 modules x 3 scala versions x 3 platforms = 90 projects. Loading all of these into Metals is not the funnest day :) particularly if you are only working on a subset of them. In practice a single platform and single scala version is sufficient.

Describe the solution you'd like

Bleep has an interesting feature where it allows you to select the specific subset of projects you are interested in.

https://bleep.build/docs/usage/selecting-projects/

Describe alternatives you've considered

• BSP control plugin typelevel/sbt-typelevel#465

Additional context

No response

Search terms

cross-building, platforms

[armanbilge]

Related to this feature request I think, but I'm not entirely sure.

• Preferred platform and Scala version in cross-built projects #13

[armanbilge]

Aha, this is a duplicate of scalameta/metals#6782! Sorry I missed it in my initial search :)

[tgodzik]

No worries @armanbilge I wonder if you have anything more to add. What is the exact issue you are seeing, what happens within Metals that might be slowing things down? Do you have a project maybe where we could experiement? We can continue the conversation on the other issue. This looks like something more along the lines of a bug really.