Vim-go: Feature Request: Add option to globally disable gopls

[wpaulino]

This is useful for users who already have a language client set up to interact with gopls. vim-go is still useful for many of its other great features, so this would allow users to not have two instances of gopls consuming resources.

[bhcleek]

gopls is going to be necessary for many vim-go features; it's used for more than just completion; I don't foresee us adding a way to completely disable it.

[cherrot]

So is there a way to disable vim-go's autocompletion feature?

[cherrot]

So is there a way to disable vim-go's autocompletion feature?

This should work. Sorry for bothering:

let g:go_code_completion_enabled = 0

[dhulihan]

in certain cases, the latest version of gopls (v0.1.3) can eat up a lot of CPU on OSX. It's not uncommon to work on several go codebases at a time in vim. When each vim session starts its own gopls (started by vim-go), you're going to start burning a LOT of CPU.

Here's an example where I have 10 vim sessions open and 10 corresponding gopls processes: