Improve error discovery when the LSP process cannot be started #142
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When the
bash-language-server
cannot be started or found the user only sees a message that the process could not be found instead of seeing the actual reason for the failure.This message got me very confused when I installed the extension because I made sure I had the
bash-language-server
installed and could find it in myPATH
but I thought VS Code somehow fails to find it. The actual problem was that I upgraded to Node.js 12 and the process failed to start as it was not compiled against the correct Node.js version. I only discovered that when I actually tried to start the server.This PR improves the discovery of the failure by showing a more generic error message and guiding users to the DevTools console where the actual error is logged.