What about autocmd's?

[vinylen]

Hey!

I am currently migrating my existing neovim confguration to nvf and i was wondering where do i configure my own autocmds?

For example this:

-- Highlight Yanks
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("TextYankPost", {
	group = "bufcheck",
	pattern = "*",
	callback = function()
		vim.highlight.on_yank({ timeout = 500 })
	end,
})

In my previous neovim configuration this was in a separate file called "autocmd.lua" and was called by init.lua.

Thanks again for nvf!

[horriblename]

autocmd API is under development, in the meantime, since you already have autocmds in a separate file, you can just do this:

vim.luaConfigRC.myAutocmds = ''
  vim.cmd.luafile(${./path/to/autocmd.lua})
''

[vinylen]

Thanks! I'm having issues with this but i think it's because i am doing something wrong :)

This is what i have:

luaConfigRC.myAutocmds = ''
  vim.cmd.luafile(${./neovim/lua/autocmds.lua})
'';

This is the folder structure where nvf.nix is placed:

.
├── ghostty.nix
├── neovim
│   ├── init.lua
│   ├── lazy-lock.json
│   └── lua
│       ├── autocmds.lua
│       ├── keymaps.lua
│       ├── options.lua
│           
├── neovim.nix
├── nvf.nix
├── vscode.nix
└── zsh.nix

And when i start neovim i get this error:

Error detected while processing /nix/store/aqh3mbic2gwwwkj5ann2m00fk1www61k-neovim-pack-dir/init.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: /nix/store/xdnzj8lz8xf59kxs1j91lgw9ig0p3h1c-init.lua:1033: unexpected symbol near '/'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'dofile'
        ...qh3mbic2gwwwkj5ann2m00fk1www61k-neovim-pack-dir/init.lua:13: in main chunk

[horriblename]

I forgot to quote the file...

vim.cmd.luafile("${./file.lua}")

[vinylen]

I noticed that we recently got autocmd support! Great news :)

However i am having issues figuring out how to configure it. This is what i currently have:

  programs.nvf = {
    enable = true;
    settings = {
      config.vim = {
        useSystemClipboard = true;
        autocmds = {
          TextYankPost = {
            enable = true;
            desc = "Highlight yanks on copy";
            pattern = "*";
            callback = ''
              function()
                vim.highlight.on_yank({ timeout = 500 })
              end
            '';
          };
        };

I am getting an error that says the following:

error: A definition for option home-manager.users.vicnil.programs.nvf.settings.vim.autocmds' is not of type list of (submodule)'

Okay so my understanding of nix is limited, but what i though of initially is that is supposed to be a list so i changed it to this:

  programs.nvf = {
    enable = true;
    settings = {
      config.vim = {
        useSystemClipboard = true;
        autocmds = [
          {
            TextYankPost = {
              enable = true;
              desc = "Highlight yanks on copy";
              pattern = "*";
              callback = ''
                function()
                  vim.highlight.on_yank({ timeout = 500 })
                end
              '';
            };
          }
        ];

And then i get this error:

error: The option `home-manager.users.vicnil.programs.nvf.settings.vim.autocmds."[definition 1-entry 1]".TextYankPost' does not exist

Could anyone chime in on what i am doing wrong? :)

[NotAShelf]

Could you try (inside the list)

{
	enable = true;
    desc = "Highlight yanks on copy";
    pattern = ["*"];
    callback = lib.generators.mkLuaInline ''
    	function()
        	vim.highlight.on_yank({ timeout = 500 })
        end
    '';
}

I'm not on my system right now, but if I recall correctly the submodule system is designed for anonymous sets- not named ones. You'll also want to correct the pattern and the callback, but perhaps it'll be sensible for me to change the pattern to one of null, str, *or* a listOf str` to avoid confusion.

[vinylen]

Yes this solved it! Thank you :)

For anyone that reads this is in the future, this is the final configuration:

config.vim = {
useSystemClipboard = true;
autocmds = [
  {
    enable = true;
    desc = "Highlight yanks on copy";
    pattern = ["*"];
    event = ["TextYankPost"];
    callback = lib.generators.mkLuaInline ''
      function()
          vim.highlight.on_yank({ timeout = 500 })
         end
    '';
  }
];
};