Move to LUA

[jrock2004]

I have started the transition but wondering if others have moved over to LUA. Did you like it? What issues did you have? Or maybe you think its a bad idea?

[yarthur]

I’m not one of the hip kids, so if you would, please explain a bit further; are you thinking of using LUA in place of the shell scripts, as a lifestyle choice, or something else altogether?

My shell scripting knowledge is almost entirely StackOverflow based. It’s what bothers me the most about my setup scripts; I barely know how they work at best. If LUA offers something a bit less inscrutable to my limited experience, that would be very interesting to me.

[jrock2004]

Here is some errors in typescript

[jrock2004]

And here is some more good LSP goodness

[nicknisi]

Ok, now I'm really interested in this. I have mostly ignored it as I've gone down the coc route. But, it's the switch to a Lua config that enables this?

[jrock2004]

I am still learning but yeah. There are even plugins that will change for you. Treesitter is another nice thing as you get better syntax highlighting. For best results I switched to neovim 0.5.5. Its 97% done and almost ready to switch. Its definitely an investment. Not a clone of your repo, but here is where I am working on the conversion https://github.com/jrock2004/dotfiles/tree/convert-to-lua/files/.config/nvim

@nicknisi was even able to replace fzf with a lua plugin

[yarthur]

In case I came off too snarky or otherwise off-putting, my apologies. And of course, I dropped a comment, and then ghosted for a couple weeks 🤦‍♂️

Neovim has Lua built-in and it can be used as a way to script the editor as an alternative to Vim script.

I was genuinely clueless about this, so thanks for explaining it.

[jrock2004]

So have I convinced anyone to switch to Lua config?

[jrock2004]

Well that is nice is that you do not get too deep into Lua. You won't need to learn much beyond the basics. It was definitely an investment to get my dot files converted

[nicknisi]

Do you have any resources that you used to learn? It seems like a lot of it would be "How do I do in Lua?" searches.

[jrock2004]

There is a YouTube series where someone was converting their complex Vimscript setup to Lua. I watched to get an understanding then I just started to convert mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoDU6QOmEOY

[jrock2004]

But you are right that I should go find some tutorials on lua to get some more understanding

[jrock2004]

https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html Its pretty good

[jrock2004]

One sad thing about moving to LUA is that I get farther away from using this repo as it has helped me so much in the past

[nicknisi]

I definitely intend to check out your config!

[nicknisi]

I have finally started taking a look at this. Initially, I have some very basic Lua set up to configure the LSP and I removed coc. The work is on this branch. So far, I am really excited about all you can do with these new plugins!

[jrock2004]

Yeah you really need to look back and see what plugins can replace what. There is some M1 problems with some things. I am still working and some things are broken for me

[nicknisi]

Ooh, I am very curious what M1 problems you're seeing? So far everything has been flawless on mine.

[jrock2004]

lua language server

[jrock2004]

Oooh, looks like it might be fixed

[jrock2004]

Koihik/LuaFormatter#180 This is the issue to watch

[nicknisi]

Continuing this thread, I have a branch with my init.vim ported to init.lua https://github.com/nicknisi/dotfiles/blob/lua-neovim-lsp/config/nvim/init.lua

[nicknisi]

It's pretty straightforward for the most part, but there are a few things that aren't working that I'm still looking in to.

[jrock2004]

I think the 2 things that got me was the settings and knowing how to do them. The auto commands are a little bit of a pain

[nicknisi]

Yeah, I agree. I mostly just fall back to vim.cmd and vim.api.nvim_exec calls for stuff like that. I think I am at parity with my init.vim now, which is awesome!

[jrock2004]

I will say that my setup is not fully right and I need to find some time to fix some things. The things that are working are nice

[nicknisi]

I'd love to help understand what's not working well. I think I am back up to parity with where my init.vim was and have started adding some cool new Lua plugins like trouble!

[jrock2004]

Yeah, when I decided to start this journey, I decided to replace my plugins with lua plugins and use LSP. I still use old vim plugins, but only when needed

[jrock2004]

I just installed trouble and man, this is a really cool plugin

[jrock2004]

I am using a cool dashboard plugin that opens on first load of vim. When I select something or open a file with telescope, I would love for it to close that buffer. This is the first problem I need to fix this weekend

[nicknisi]

Is it this plugin you're using? I looked at that briefly and am wondering about replacing startify with it.

[jrock2004]

Yeah, I am using someones fork of it, but yes https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/dashboard-nvim

[jrock2004]

I fixed the issue from switching from using the fork to using the original

[jrock2004]

Problem 2 I have is when I save some files that does formatting on save, and it puts it as changes so I see the circle. I save file again and it does same thing. If I hit :q I get a warning that there is unsaved changes

Here is the section that does the formatting

vim.cmd [[augroup Format]]
vim.cmd [[autocmd! * <buffer>]]
vim.cmd [[autocmd BufWritePost <buffer> lua formatting()]]
vim.cmd [[augroup END]]

[jrock2004]

This is fixed now :)

[jrock2004]

Just found out with telescope you can use fuzzy search to look up help stuff

nmap('<leader>vh', '<cmd>lua require(\'telescope.builtin\').help_tags()<CR>')