Neovim LSP with Go

Question

I am trying to set up my Neovim (nightly - latest) with Go (the programming language).

However, it doesn't seem to be working, most likely because I'm missing something. I'm not sure what though.

Right now, when I open a Go file, at the bottom of Vim, I get a message saying:

Autostart for gopls failed: matching root directory not detected.

With the Go file still open, if I run :LspInfo I get:

CURRENT CONFIG:

1. vimrc
2. zprofile
3. completion.lua (has cmp and lspconfig)

What am I missing? Why am I not getting auto-complete, go to definition, find references ...etc (the usual LSP stuff).

Answer 1

It turns out, the buffer doesn't get attached unless I have a .git folder in the project root directory, or a go.mod file.

I didn't have those, I just had a main.go.