nvim-lua-plugin-template

This repository is a template for Neovim plugins written in Lua.

The intention is that you use this template to create a new repository where you then adapt this readme and add your plugin code. The template includes the following:

• GitHub workflows and configurations to run linters and tests
• Packaging of tagged releases and upload to LuaRocks if a LUAROCKS_API_KEY is added to the GitHub Actions secrets
• Minimal test setup:
  • A scm rockspec, nvim-lua-plugin-scm-1.rockspec
  • A .busted file
• EditorConfig
• A .luacheckrc

To get started writing a Lua plugin, I recommend reading :help lua-guide and :help write-plugin.

Scope

Anything that the majority of plugin authors will want to have is in scope of this starter template. Anything that is controversial is out-of-scope.

Usage

• Click Use this template. Do not fork.
• Rename nvim-lua-plugin-scm-1.rockspec and change the package name to the name of your plugin.

Template License

The template itself is licensed under the MIT license. The template doesn't include a LICENSE file. You should add one after creating your repository.

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The remainder of the README is text that can be preserved in your plugin:

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Development

Run tests

Running tests requires either

• luarocks
• or busted and nlua

to be installed¹.

You can then run:

luarocks test --local
# or
busted

Or if you want to run a single test file:

luarocks test spec/path_to_file.lua --local
# or
busted spec/path_to_file.lua

If you see an error like module 'busted.runner' not found:

eval $(luarocks path --no-bin)

For this to work you need to have Lua 5.1 set as your default version for luarocks. If that's not the case you can pass --lua-version 5.1 to all the luarocks commands above.

Footnotes

1. The test suite assumes that nlua has been installed using luarocks into ~/.luarocks/bin/. ↩