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How to setup intelephense with neovim + lua?
I have 2 neovims, one with coc, and another with lua.
In neovim with coc, intelephense works.
I am working with wordpress, and i need intelephense.
Nvim coc setup.
plugins.vim
Plug 'yaegassy/coc-...
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Attach to terminal buffer opened with termopen
I have the following Lua function:
local function submit_diff(diff_msg_file)
vim.fn.termopen("arc diff HEAD^ -F " .. diff_msg_file, {
on_exit = function(_, exit_code, _)
if ...
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How to create a lua function that gets called for a vim (neovim) motion
Vim has the concept of actions, which can act on text objects via motions.
For example diw will delete (the action) the inner word (the motion).
I want to create a function that can be applied/...
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How to remove vim trailing white space?
In Vim I used autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e to delete trailing white space. Now, Neovim 0.7 has the new vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd.
What is the correct syntax to update this autocmd in Lua?
vim....
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Neovim Lua: Error while calling lua chunk [...] '' expected near 'local'
When I run Neovim (NVIM v0.6.1), I get
Error detected while processing /home/ecarroll/.config/nvim/init.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: vim.lua:63: /home/ecarroll/.config/nvim/lua/plugins....
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(Code review) Copying file path relative to cwd with the line number appended
I am replicating what PHPStorm and VSCode do by allowing me to copy the file path and line number (plus column) to clipboard. I have written a function in lua to do this, but, I wanted to ask about ...
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How to get the current window horizontal padding?
Today I wrote this little utility function to resize my current window to a comfortable width:
-- Resizes the current window to the maximum required width
function M.resize_window()
local padding =...
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leader not working in visual mode in lua?
I am migrating from vimscript to lua for my keybindings and I have remapped the leader key as space:
vim.g.mapleader = " "
It works fine with all my key bindings. Except in visual mode.
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How to detect whether the current file might contains a long line?
As title. I want to disable some plugins when the current file is a production file, i.e. it is compacted into < 10 lines but each line contains >1000 columns. I'm using NeoVim so I prefer ...
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Convert Vim keymap to lua
I want to change my emmet leader key in vim, but I do not know how to do this in lua.
Vim Script code:
imap ,, <C-y>,
Lua Code:
local map = vim.keymap.set
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Neovim source code: what is if_true in options.lua?
The defaults that Neovim has are specified in src/nvim/options.lua. I'm trying to understand this source,
Let's take for example, something like backup
{
full_name='backup', abbreviation='bk'...
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How does .vimrc relate to ~/.config/nvim/init.lua?
When I heard neovim had a "native language client", I wanted to trying moving it. Previously, I was using a language server loaded through vim-plug. This was always problematic. When I ...
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Is the goal of Lua in neovim to replace Ex, and if not what is it?
I am a new user to neovim, and a moderator on this site said
You seem to imply that you expect there should be a native way to run [filetype] (and to some extent every Ex command) directly in Lua. ...
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How can I find what Lua API functions are supported in my Neovim?
When I try to run the following code in my conf or under :luado
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({"BufNewFile", "BufRead"}, {
pattern = {"*.t"},
callback = function () ...
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How do you set terminal options like t_Co in neovim?
When I put into my ~/.config/nvim/init.lua
vim.opt.t_Co = 256
I get
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: vim/_meta.lua:659: Not a valid option name: t_Co
But there is an option in vim called t_Co. ...
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How can I port nmap, map, and imap commands to Lua configuration?
How can I port map commands in my vimrc file to Neovim lua configuration? For example:
nmap <silent> <F2> <Plug>(lcn-rename)
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How do I port a filetype command to neovim's lua format?
Currently my .vimrc file has this in it,
filetype plugin indent on -- filetype detection[ON] plugin[ON] indent[ON]
How can I port filetype plugin indent on to neovim's lua format?
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How to install sumneko_lua
I'm a Mac user with complete lua config. I have tried installing sumneko_lua in Neovim 0.6.1 several times but without success. Frustration led me to open this question.
I have also read and tried to ...
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keymap for LSP code formatting in visual mode
In neovim I would like to set a keybinding -- via lua config -- to use LSP to format the visual selection when I type \qf.
Using this setting, I can format the whole buffer from normal mode:
vim.api....
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How to set keywordprg to call a lua function in neovim?
A plugin unidentified is setting the keywordprg option to :Man but I want it to be LSP based.
So I attempted
set keywordprg=:lua\ vim.lsp.buf.signature_help()
but it gives me the following error and ...
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See live word count in Lualine
I am currently using lualine as my statusline. I would like to see the live world count of the file similar to the feature in airline preferable I would like to get this working natively or else any ...
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Unable to turn off syntax highlighting with lua script in neovim
running newvim 0.6.1. Totally clean install, no plugins.
In init.lua:
vim.opt.syntax = "off"
Also tried "false" and "disabled." Didn't work. Also tried vim.g, vim.o, vim....
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How I can refresh a lua script?
How to reproduce, in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim:
command! Scratch lua require'tools'.hello()
In ~/.config/nvim/lua/tools.lua:
local M = {}
function M.hello()
print('hello')
end
return M
nvim
:Scratch
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Neovim Lua script to dynamically load .lua config files
I'm trying to implement a Lua script that can dynamically load NeoVim .lua configuration files, given a single folder name.
Here's the requireaPath function
function requirePath(path)
local files = ...
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How do I open an existing file in a floating window?
For a plugin, I want to open an existing file situated in lua/myPlugin/ in a floating window, so whatever the actual working directory is, this file is always the one to be opened. It sounded easy, ...
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Lua syntax errors when using `Packer` plugin manger with `config=require()` in Neovim
I'm using neovim 0.6.0 and my config is written in Lua.
My init.lua file requires files such as mappings and plugins. I use packer to manage plugins, and when calling the packer use command I can pass ...
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How do I change my language in my init.lua? - neovim
I've got the problem that the neovim language is set to German for some reason even though I only use a German keyboard layout (see this question). Unfortunately I am using lua for configuring neovim (...
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Moving the visual selection up by 1 line using Lua (NeoVim)
So I am trying to create a Lua function to move the visual selection elsewhere. For question simplicity, lets assume 1 line above the current visual selection position.
This question is not about ...
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BufDelete running after window is closed
For some reason, the BufDelete autocommand is being executed right after a window is created, instead before, and i think it shouldn't be like that, according to the docs:
Before deleting a buffer ...
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Insert mode <S-Tab> to delete one <Tab>-indent?
I want to use <S-Tab> to do the reverse of <Tab> in insert mode in Lua. (If this is complicated in Lua then VimScript is OK) How?
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Some migration problems from vimrc to init.lua
How can I simplify the following codes in my init.lua?
(For "simplify" I mean that by vim.cmd(...) you're actually letting Lua run vimscript under the hood. But there is probably a Lua API ...
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Neovim - How do you call Python from Lua and store the results as a Lua variable?
I am trying to improve a GitHub repository for Neovim called
quangnguyen30192/cmp-nvim-ultisnips
It's a Lua repository that calls another Vim plugin repository, SirVer/ultisnips , a primarily Python-...
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How to add `~/.config/nvim' into runtime path for Lua?
In my init.lua I call:
require('plugins')
require('theme')
This works when editing in the ~/.config/nvim directory, where init.lua, plugins.lua and theme.lua are located.
But when I run vim outside ...
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Run a Function Upon Exiting a Terminal
By using the following code...
vim.fn.termopen("foo")
I can open a terminal with a certain command. What I want to do is run a Lua function from a plugin upon exiting the terminal.
Pseudo ...
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How can I read the contents of a buffer or line then rewrite them, from a Lua script?
I am trying to write a pretty-printer Lua plugin for a LaTeX-like language. The idea is that if a user types \cup in insert mode then presses <Space> or <Tab> or <CR>, then my script ...
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How to find line and column for a n-th byte in a buffer?
I want to find a line number and a column for a particular byte number in a buffer in Neovim. I can get it (sort of) with
local b = 444
local line = vim.fn.byte2line(b)
local line_start = vim.fn....
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How to require `luafile` not in a subdirectory
in my config of init.lua ,I want to load a luafile from anywhere or any directory
so : can I source it without function vim.cmd()
vim.cmd('luafile /full/path/to/file.lua')
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How to run command asynchronously whith :lua command?
When using vim8.1, it does not provide vim.fn and vim.call function, so we can not use vim.fn.job_start. then how can I run command asynchronously in lua?
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How to get the searchcount() total of matches into a lua variable
The searchcount() gives use something like:
{'exact_match': 1, 'current' : 1, 'incomplete': 0, 'maxcount': 99, 'total': 5}
It is a dictionary, I am trying to do something based on the help:
local ...
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How to get range value of a ex-mode command in Lua?
I want to get the range of ex-mode command in Lua(eg 1 and 3 in 1;3d). The range value should be stored as a:firstline and a:lastline in vim, but based on the doc, a is not implemented in the vim ...
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Cannot get current node tree with treesitter in Lua in nvim
I am trying to get the AST tree to find the node I want. Based on the doc, I should be able to get the tree like this:
local parser = vim.treesitter.get_parser(0, vim.o.filetype)
print('check ...
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stash and restore highlight colors with lua and neovim
I would like to toggle an option and with it the highlight color of Whitespace.
Before setting the color with vim.api.nvim_command("hi Whitespace guifg=#ff0000") I would like to stash the ...
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How can I get the current cursor position in Lua?
How can I get the current cursor position in Lua? I want to get a number so that I can use it in a for-loop.
I tried this, but I got a hashed value instead:
local lineNum = vim.api.nvim_win_get_cursor(...
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Unable to use lua inside a `.vim` file
I am using a nightly build of nvim, and I am trying to use neovim/nvim-lspconfig. I have followed to doc and setup the language server, but nvim throws error and reports that it is unable to process ...
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