neovim 0.7

[jasperstam]

I have several minor issues now, probably relating to the version of neovim I have installed. 0.7.2 or something.

I previously had to comment out line #31 in ~/.config/lua/settings/init.lua to get rid of a "splitkeep" error. Suddenly almost everything began working, so I went back and uncommented the line, but could not reproduce that error again.

So now when starting nvim I get this;

  Error detected while processing /root/.config/nvim/plugin/packer_compiled.lua:
Feline needs 'termguicolors' to be enabled to work properly                                
Please do `:help 'termguicolors'` in Neovim for more information
E355: Unknown option: winbar     
minimap: this plugin requires code-minimap installed.
Press ENTER or type command to continue            

I searched through the packer_compiled.lua file, but do not see anything about winbar. I found some reference to a similar missing "winbar" problem, but no way for me to fix what I've got going on. [{edit: actually I was able to move ahead a little bit on the code-minimap issue by running sudo apt install libclang-dev g++ -y , then cargo install minimap succeeded. will edit again if still greater success is realized. } {REedit: even though cargo install minimap succeeded, I think it was the wrong package, because I needed code-minimap instead. I ran this other line, which succeeded also, # cargo install --locked code-minimap then I only had to Sync plugins in nvim, and now I have a working minimap!} so now when I start nvim I only get

               Error detected while processing /root/.config/nvim/plugin/packer_compiled.lua:
Feline needs 'termguicolors' to be enabled to work properly                                
Please do `:help 'termguicolors'` in Neovim for more information
E355: Unknown option: winbar     

errors.]

[jasperstam]

when I try to update or "sync" plugins from the front page I get these errors, but then the update seems to execute properly.

Error detected while processing CursorMoved Autocommands for "*":                                                                                                                                  
Error executing lua callback: ...are/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/alpha-nvim/lua/alpha.lua:350: Column value outside range
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'nvim_buf_add_highlight'
        ...are/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/alpha-nvim/lua/alpha.lua:350: in function 'layout'
        ...are/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/alpha-nvim/lua/alpha.lua:556: in function 'draw'
        ...are/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/alpha-nvim/lua/alpha.lua:579: in function 'redraw'
        ...are/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/alpha-nvim/lua/alpha.lua:495: in function <...are/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/alpha-nvim/lua/alpha.lua:492>
Press ENTER or type command to continue             

maybe it's just time for me to remove and reinstall neovim completely, maybe even find out how to upgrade to 0.8.

[crivotz]

Hi @jasperstam, as you identified many problems are related to the version you are using. If you will start to use the stable version you would still have some problems because I mainly work using the nightly version.

For example winbar has been merge into stable while splitkeep not yet. However I have a branch called neovim-stable that does not introduce these issues, although sometimes it can get behind compared to the main branch.

;)

P.S. if you use zsh I suggest you try zinit for software installation including Neovim, youn can take also my configuration as starter