Quick start: Lua (neovim)

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glyh edited this page Jan 22, 2022 · 5 revisions

Prerequisites

Install the latest Neovim.
Install the Conjure plugin.
Install the nvim-treesitter plugin.
Run :TSInstall lua to install parser for Lua.
(Optional) Install the nvim-treesitter-textobjects plugin. With this plugin, you can use shortcut keys to select, e.g. a function, and the send it to Conjure for evaluation.

Configuration

You just need to configure Conjure to enable tree-sitter support:

vim.g['conjure#extract#tree_sitter#enabled'] = true

After that, update your config, open a Lua buffer and you’re good to go.

Constraint

Local variables won’t be preserved from evaluation to evalutation. This behavior is the same as Lua’s REPL. To overcome this, just use global variables when interacting with Conjure.
Right now the code evaluation is blocking. Later there might be other clients implemented as a standalone REPL that provide non-blocking evaluation.