Defined plugins in 'custom.plugins' are not synced about kickstart.nvim

[tjdevries]

can you show your exact custom/plugins file? And to be clear, you put it in custom/plugins not costom/plugins right?

[BKDevelop]

Sorry for the late reply. Had the chance to try this on a different machine today... It works just fine!

I assume PEBKAC on my last attempt - sorry for the inconvinience!

[tjdevries]

No problem at all :) have a good day

[jby]

I'm seeing the exact same behaviour here.
My $HOME/.config/nvim/custom/plugins.lua:

return function(use)
  use({
	'nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua'
	config = function()
		require("nvim-tree").setup()
	'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
	end
	})

[BKDevelop]

I think the file needs to be located at

$HOME/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins.lua

[jby]

Yes, sorry - my mistake... :(

[jby]

However, it would seem that the custom/plugins.lua is only read for config of the plugin. Packer doesn't seem to see any plugins included in it...
I now have 3 plugins configured in it:

return function(use)
-- Configure nvim-tree
  use({
	'nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua'
	config = function()
		require("nvim-tree").setup()
	'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
	end
-- Add friendly snippets
  use({
	'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets'
	config = function ()
		require("friendly-snippets").setup()
	end
	})
end

and it never installs 'friendly-snippets', and if I run PackerSync manually it always asks if it can remove the unused nvim-tree plugins... (which were installed when I had them in init.lua, which was when I had the wrong path to my custom/plugins.lua)
It does read the nvim-tree config though, since I can create a keymap for it in my after/plugin/defaults.lua...
What am I doing wrong?

[LudoPinelli]

Hi @jby,
It works fine for me, have you tried :PackerInstall (before:PackerSync)?
Also, for PackerSync always asking to remove the old nvim-tree, you can try to delete this folders:
~/.config/cache/nvim
It will rebuild it the next time you launch neovim.

EDIT: also for friendly-snippets to be taken into account by luasnip you have to replace the line require('friendly-snippets').setup() whith require('luasnip.loader.from_vscode').lazy_load().

[jby]

I'd guess it's these (rather than ~/.config/cache/nvim, especially since I don't have a cache dir in ~/.config) that I should remove?

However a :PackerInstall does nothing...

[jby]

I'm pretty sure though, that if I were to remove the above I would no longer have the nvim-tree plugin installed...

[LudoPinelli]

You can remove ~/.local/share/nvim, it will reset your config and reinstall everything (you may have to restart neovim a couple of time for everything to be set up).

I don't knwow if the custom/plugins.lua you showed is only a snippet or the entire file. If it is the entire file, a }) is missing, also nvim-web-devicons should be required. Here is the file with the corrections :

return function(use)
-- Configure nvim-tree
  use({
	{'nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua', requires = 'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'},
	config = function()
		require("nvim-tree").setup()
	'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
	end
	})
-- Add friendly snippets
  use({
	'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets'
	config = function ()
		require("luasnip.loaders.from_vscode").lazy_load()
	end
	})
end

[jby]

Ok, thanks - but still - no install of the plugins in the custom file.
I did remove ~/.local/share/nvim and when I restarted it re-installed everything again - but not the plugins in the custom file:

[jby]

Albeit it does look for it since I've configured it...

Error detected while processing /Users/jonasb/src/jby/nvim/after/plugin/defaults.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: /Users/jonasb/src/jby/nvim/after/plugin/defaults.lua:4: module 'nvim-tree' not found:
        no field package.preload['nvim-tree']
        no file './nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/luajit-2.1.0-beta3/nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/nvim-tree/init.lua'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/share/lua/5.1/nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/share/lua/5.1/nvim-tree/init.lua'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/nvim-tree/init.lua'
        no file './nvim-tree.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/nvim-tree.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/lib/lua/5.1/nvim-tree.so'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /Users/jonasb/src/jby/nvim/after/plugin/defaults.lua:4: in main chunk

[jby]

So - the ~/.config/nvim/after/plugin/defaults.lua definitively is read, but apparently not the ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins.lua

[jby]

Hmm, my ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins.lua doesn't even seem to be read even if I ignore the logic that's supposed to look for it and manually specify it in init.lua like this:

(require 'custom.plugins')

My ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins.lua now:

return function(use)
  -- Configure nvim-tree
  use({
    {'nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua', requires = 'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'},
    config = function()
      require("nvim-tree").setup()
      'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
    end
  })
  -- Add friendly snippets
  use({
    'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets',
    config = function ()
      require('luasnip.loader.from_vscode').lazy_load()
    end
  })
  -- // Comment.nvim
  use {
    'numToStr/Comment.nvim',
    config = function()
      require('Comment').setup()
    end
  }
end

[jby]

The only way, so far I get the plugins I want to add to actually be installed and used is to add them to init.lua...
Doesn't that kind of make the custom.plugins rather useless?

[LudoPinelli]

Doesn't that kind of make the custom.plugins rather useless?

Sure but it seems that you are the only one with this problem, I'm sorry, I'm running out of ideas.

[jby]

I kind of feel like I've hi-jacked someone else's, already closed, issue here. Maybe I should create my own instead?

[jby]

Created #176 instead