How to use packer.use inside neovim?

Question

I was switching vimscript to lua in neovim, and I saw packer.nvim is a famous plugin manager for lua. In this README.md file I saw I can use startup function, but it's not required and I can also use packer.use.

So I required my plugin file in init.lua

and then this is the plugins.lua

local packer = require('packer')
packer.init {
    disable_commands = true
}
local use = packer.use
packer.reset()

use {
    'wbthomason/packer.nvim'
}

after that when I run nvim it is not allowing to use PackerSync

but when I remove disable commands from packer.init, it works fine(if i don't remove packer.init())

but when I remove the function packer.init(), it is not allowing me to use PackerSync

my question is in this below link,wbthomason also used disable_commands = true, and also lvim also used disable_commands, how can it be worked fine?

https://github.com/wbthomason/dotfiles/blob/linux/neovim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins.lua

Answer 1

disable_commands = true was disabling PackerInstall, PackerSync, etc., but not the plugin, so I switched to using packer.sync() inside plugins.lua, and it worked fine.