rename launch -> autostart, add documentation

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c2873e86..4d49ec61 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -211,6 +211,14 @@ Please see the [wiki](https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/wiki) for additio
 
 and more.
 
+## Manually starting (or restarting) language servers
+
+If you would like to manually managing starting language servers, but still have new buffers within a root directory autoattach 
+to running servers, pass `autostart = false` to your `.setup{}` call for a language server and call 
+`:lua require('lspconfig').language_server_name.launch()`.
+
+This function can also be used to restart a workspace after stopping a language server with `:lua vim.lsp.stop_client(client_id)`.
+
 ## setup() function
 
 Only the following arguments can be passed to the setup function:
@@ -255,6 +263,10 @@ lspconfig.SERVER.setup{config}
     May be empty.
     Server may specify a default value.
 
+  {autostart}
+    Whether to automatically start a language server when a matching filetype is detected.
+    Defaults to true.
+
   {log_level}
     controls the level of logs to show from window/logMessage notifications. Defaults to
     vim.lsp.protocol.MessageType.Warning instead of
diff --git a/lua/lspconfig/configs.lua b/lua/lspconfig/configs.lua
index e0e07975..343ed7a5 100644
--- a/lua/lspconfig/configs.lua
+++ b/lua/lspconfig/configs.lua
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ function configs.__newindex(t, config_name, config_def)
 
     local get_root_dir = config.root_dir
 
-    function M.launch()
+    function M.autostart()
       local root_dir = get_root_dir(api.nvim_buf_get_name(0), api.nvim_get_current_buf())
       api.nvim_command(string.format(
           "autocmd %s lua require'lspconfig'[%q].manager.try_add_wrapper()"