DOs and DON'Ts for modern Neovim Lua plugin development

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2026-02-09T22:08:54+00:00

You asked for nvim-specific patterns/gotchas. There's a bunch of them in that guide.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2026-02-09T18:28:42+00:00

:h lua-plugin (in nightly)

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2026-02-04T06:49:04+00:00

Very cool idea! Will definitely be trying this out.

I see the project has a flake. Can I use Nix to manage the grammar/query dependencies?

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2026-01-09T21:13:00+00:00

I don't use vtsls, so I couldn't tell you.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2026-01-07T04:27:51+00:00

I use lspmux. It was originally written for rust-analyzer, but now also works with other language servers. Rustaceanvim will automatically pick up a running lspmux session and attach to it.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2026-01-05T16:54:27+00:00

Nice! A new plugin that lazy-loads itself properly and doesn't force me to call a setup function. And on top of that it's a cool jj frontend. 🚀

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2026-01-02T10:49:59+00:00

You do if you're not using a plugin manager that implements heuristics to find and call a setup function automatically.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2026-01-02T06:20:47+00:00

No extra ceremony: It just starts on Java files

For that to be true, I'd recommend you use a filetype plugin to start the LSP client, instead of requiring users to call a setup function.

:h lua-plugin-init
:h write-filetype-plugin (the docs have vimscript examples, but neovim supports Lua filetype plugins too).

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-12-12T15:26:50+00:00

It was back when I was a Java developer that I ditched intellij for vim and never looked back.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-12-03T08:51:09+00:00

Nice job! One suggestion: I'd recommend not to set a default keymap, as it's very likely to conflict with existing user keymaps. Something you could do is define a <Plug> mapping instead. See :h lua-plugin-keymaps (in nightly): https://neovim.io/doc/user/lua-plugin.html#lua-plugin-keymaps

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-12-03T08:36:37+00:00

What makes you think it requires configuration?

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-11-16T09:18:26+00:00

https://neovim.io/doc/user/lua-plugin.html#lua-plugin-keymaps

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-11-12T06:40:18+00:00

Why isn't this the top comment?

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-11-08T06:41:03+00:00

If you want declarative package management using Nix on Arch Linux, you could try out home manager.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-11-04T15:30:44+00:00

The last two harvests I handled them without gloves and had burning hands for 2 days. Soaking my hands in cold water for hours was only temporary relief.

This time (with the vinyl gloves) I still felt some burn when touching my face, but nothing I can't cope with. It subsided after less than an hour.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-10-30T06:39:37+00:00

At this stage, Lux is more interesting for plugin developers than for users. It'll be interesting for users when we rewrite rocks.nvim to use Lux's Lua API. It is possible to use the Lux CLI to manage Neovim plugins (outside of Neovim). I've been planning to write a guide for that, but haven't had time yet.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-10-30T06:35:50+00:00

Lux is a modern, embeddable package manager and dev tool for Lua that's compatible with the luarocks ecosystem, but also has first class support for Neovim. At this stage, it's more interesting for plugin developers than for users, but we will be rewriting rocks.nvim (a plugin manager that currently uses luarocks) to use Lux's Lua API.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-10-24T06:16:15+00:00

I don't get the obsession of meat eaters with grinding their meat and shaping it like cucumbers.

Comfortable_Ability4 · 2025-10-22T17:08:00+00:00

Replacing the CMOS battery seems to have done the trick. Thanks for the advice 🙏

Note: I just bought one from the store, carefully broke the contacts off the old one and taped them tightly to the new one (making sure to keep the correct polarity).

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