Overview
LunarVim strives to have support for all major languages. This is made possible by utilizing some of the great plugins in Neovim's ecosystem. Such plugins are nvim-lspconfig, for LSP support, and Null-ls to provide support for handling external formatters, such as prettier and eslint. Furthermore, LunarVim integrates with nvim-treesitter to provide rich syntax highlighting and other language parsing magic.
If your language is not supported please check the following links and file a ticket so we can
- Check if LSP support is available in the lspconfig repo
- Check if your linter or formatter is available in the null-ls repo
- Check if your syntax is supported in the treesitter repo
At a glance
You can use the following commands to check some information about any language servers that you have configured.
:LvimInfo
- Contains information about all the servers attached to the buffer you are editing and their current capabilities, such as formatting and go-to definition support. It also includes information related to any linters and formatters that are, or can be, configured.
- keybind:
<leader>Li
:LspInfo
- Contains basic information about all the servers that are running.
- keybind:
<leader>li
:Mason
- Contains information about all the servers that you can manage with mason.
- keybind:
<leader>lI
LSP support
Installing and updating a server
Automatic server installation
By default, most supported language servers will get automatically installed once you open the supported file-type, e.g, opening a Python file for the first time will install Pyright
and configure it automatically for you.
- configuration option
lvim.lsp.automatic_servers_installation = true
Please refer to mason to see the updated full list of currently available servers.
To install a supported language server:
:LspInstall `<your_language_server>`
You can also toggle <:Mason>
and interactively choose which servers to install.
Server override
lvim.lsp.automatic_configuration.skipped_servers
contains a list of servers that will not be automatically configured by default, for example only tsserver
is allowed for JS-family languages, and when a language has more than one server available, then the most popular one is usually chosen.
Overriding a server will completely bypass the lsp-installer, so you would have to manage the installation for any of those servers manually.
See the current list
:lua print(vim.inspect(lvim.lsp.automatic_configuration.skipped_servers))
See the default list in lua/lvim/lsp/config.lua
Any changes to lvim.lsp.automatic_configuration.skipped_servers
must be followed by :LvimCacheReset
to take effect.
Server setup
LunarVim uses filetype plugins to enable lazy-loading the setup of a language server. A template generator is used to create ftplugin
files and populate them with the setup call.
- configuration option
lvim.lsp.templates_dir = join_paths(get_runtime_dir(), "after", "ftplugin")
A typical setup call with default arguments
-- edit this file by running `:lua vim.cmd("edit " .. lvim.lsp.templates_dir .. "/lua.lua")`
require("lvim.lsp.manager").setup("sumneko_lua")
You can quickly find these files by running <leader>Lf
-> "Find LunarVim Files"
Overriding the default setup options
Add the server you wish to configure manually to lvim.lsp.automatic_configuration.skipped_servers
.
vim.list_extend(lvim.lsp.automatic_configuration.skipped_servers, { "pyright" })
Now you can set it up manually using the builtin lsp-manager
--- list of options that should take precedence over any of LunarVim's defaults
--- check the lspconfig documentation for a list of all possible options
local opts = {}
require("lvim.lsp.manager").setup("pyright", opts)
Alternatively, set it up using the lspconfig
API directly
--- check the lspconfig documentation for a list of all possible options
local opts = {}
require("lspconfig")["pyright"].setup(opts)
Server settings
To set a setting for your language server:
:LspSettings <TAB>
:LspSettings <NAME_OF_LANGUAGE_SERVER>
This will create a file in $LUNARVIM_CONFIG_DIR/lsp-settings
, to enable persistent changes. Refer to the documentation of nlsp-settings for a full updated list of supported language servers.
Make sure to install jsonls
for autocompletion.
Linting/Formatting
Set a linter/formatter, this will override the language server formatting capabilities (if it exists)
local formatters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.formatters"
formatters.setup {
{ command = "black" },
{
command = "prettier",
args = { "--print-width", "100" },
filetypes = { "typescript", "typescriptreact" },
},
}
local linters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.linters"
linters.setup {
{ command = "flake8" },
{
command = "shellcheck",
args = { "--severity", "warning" },
},
{
command = "codespell",
filetypes = { "javascript", "python" },
},
}
local code_actions = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.code_actions"
code_actions.setup {
{
command = "proselint"
},
}
Another method is to reference the linter/formatter/code_actions by their names, as referenced in null-ls docs, if you do not want to customize the command
local formatters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.formatters"
formatters.setup {
{ name = "black" },
}
local linters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.linters"
linters.setup {
{ name = "flake8" },
{ name = "shellcheck" },
{
name = "codespell",
filetypes = { "javascript", "python" },
},
}
local code_actions = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.code_actions"
code_actions.setup {
{
name = "proselint"
},
}
This will lookup the provided name in the builtin configurations of null_ls
and apply them. It can be considered equivalent to null_ls.builtins.diagnostics.{name}
/null_ls.builtins.formatting.{name}
/null_ls.builtins.code_actions.{name}
Note: Formatters' or Linters' or Code Actions installation is not managed by LunarVim. Refer to the each tool's respective manual for installation steps.
Custom arguments
It's also possible to add custom arguments for each linter/formatter/code_actions.
local formatters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.formatters"
formatters.setup {
{
command = "prettier",
---@usage arguments to pass to the formatter
-- these cannot contain whitespace, options such as `--line-width 80` become either `{'--line-width', '80'}` or `{'--line-width=80'}`
args = { "--print-width", "100" },
},
}
local linters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.linters"
linters.setup {
{
command = "shellcheck",
---@usage arguments to pass to the formatter
-- these cannot contain whitespace, options such as `--line-width 80` become either `{'--line-width', '80'}` or `{'--line-width=80'}`
args = { "--severity", "warning" },
},
}
local code_actions = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.code_actions"
code_actions.setup {
{
command = "proselint",
args = { "--json" },
},
}
Note: remember that arguments cannot contains spaces, options such as --line-width 80
become either {'--line-width', '80'}
or {'--line-width=80'}
.
Multi languages per linter/formatter
By default a formatter will attach to all the filetypes it supports.
local formatters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.formatters"
formatters.setup {
{
command = "prettier",
---@usage specify which filetypes to enable. By default a providers will attach to all the filetypes it supports.
filetypes = { "typescript", "typescriptreact" },
},
}
Note: removing the filetypes
argument will allow the formatter to attach to all the default filetypes it supports.
Multi linters/formatters/code_actions per language
There are no restrictions on setting up multiple formatters per language
local formatters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.formatters"
formatters.setup {
{
{ command = "black", filetypes = { "python" } },
{ command = "isort", filetypes = { "python" } },
},
}
local linters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.linters"
linters.setup {
{
command = "codespell",
---@usage specify which filetypes to enable. By default a providers will attach to all the filetypes it supports.
filetypes = { "javascript", "python" },
},
}
local code_actions = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.code_actions"
code_actions.setup {
{
command = "proselint",
args = { "--json" },
filetypes = { "markdown", "tex" },
},
}
Lazy-loading the linter/formatter/code_actions setup
By default, all null-ls providers are checked on startup. If you want to avoid that or want to only set up the provider when you opening the associated file-type, then you can use filetype plugins for this purpose.
Let's take python
as an example:
- create a file called
python.lua
in the$LUNARVIM_CONFIG_DIR/after/ftplugin
folder - add the following snippet
local linters = require "lvim.lsp.null-ls.linters"
linters.setup({{command = "flake8", filetypes = { "python" } }})
Formatting on save
You can disable auto-command and is to true by default.
- configuration option
lvim.format_on_save = true