Neovim Plugin From Scratch: Testing + CI (Part 5)

[@seestevecode]

I’ve loved this series so far and have learned a lot because of the way you teach. Thank you. I know it’s not really your thing but would be great if you would drop a video explaining more about CI, builds, and the process of development in general. Just high-level stuff.

[@dennistanui7085]

Awesome, I've learned a great deal from this series and the plenary codebase 💯💯 Also, petition to bring back Take Tuesday

[@mohammadkhosravi3285]

This series is amazing.

[@lightbassed]

3mins ago, new record🎉

[@doudeman]

Thank you for showing testing. I caught an extra table insert when parsing the slide that was causing the window to draw incorrectly.

[@FlaskTest]

awesome

[@samuelborn9004]

You might want to change your background color. I am getting artifacts like crazy in the background of the terminal. A color, that KZbin can better compress might help?

[@WarloardInPcGamer]

yes.

[@papricasix]

No problems here. Maybe change quality settings in your side?

[@flokkq7931]

@@papricasix no problems either

[@flokkq7931]

teej this is so big

[@Greenindragon]

For the life of me I cannot get the makefile to work. I get an error: E492: Not an editor command: PlenaryBustedDirectory tests/ { minimal_init = './scripts/minimal_init.vim' } Still fails when cloning the official repo from the description as well. Works fine if I run the command with Neovim open and I see the tests pass, just doesn't work from the makefile. Anyone experience this as well?

[@josh_finnis]

I also see this error. It works locally when I remove --noplugin and -u scripts/minimal_init.vim from the make test command, seems our local setup isn't reading the Plenary plugin?

[@josh_finnis]

I fixed this by copying the `plenary.nvim` folder lazy puts in /.local/share/nvim/lazy into the same directory my present.nvim folder was in.

[@Greenindragon]

@@josh_finnis oh yeah that's definitely the problem, doing this worked. TJ must have a different lazy install path or he has a local copy of plenary in a different location for his development copy. Thanks!

[@itsdolantime]

Were you able to resolve this? I am getting the same error here.

[@Greenindragon]

@@itsdolantime Check the reply by john_finnis. The error is because the test command and minimal_vimrc relies on the plenary library being accessible at ../plenary.nvim (relative to the root directory of the present.nvim project), which is a non-standard location for it to be. Fix by either copying the lazy.nvim install in ~/.local/share/nvim/lazy, or by cloning the plenary repo directly (which is probably what TJ did as he has a local development copy of plenary on his machine).

[@Daniel-the_one]

I could not understand why it was not working on my machine: E492: Not an editor command: PlenaryBustedDirectory tests/ { minimal_init = './scripts/minimal_init.vim' } In minimal_init.vim the second line reads : set rtp+=../plenary.nvim/ What this means , it will add plenary.nvim to rtp ( runtime ) on each ci execution ( which is --noplugin). So, you have to clone inside your lua/ folder ( the parent of present.nvim ) plenary.nvim so that it will be loaded and make PlenaryBustedDirectory command available.

[@ib_pcpp]

Hi, you can add (not replace) the following line to your minimal_init.vim: set rtp+=~/.local/share/nvim/lazy/plenary.nvim/

[@ChristopherVanDerWesthuizen]

@@ib_pcpp Thank you! That worked for me.

[@giorgos-4515]

what is the file explorer he is using??? just creating files like that is magic

[@Greenindragon]

Oil.nvim, he made a video about it earlier this year: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGKbgXmIqNuoaNE Also talked about it earlier this month in his Advent of Neovim series (which this video is technically a part of, I think): kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6OUnoCdYt6JkKc

[@giorgos-4515]

@Greenindragon thank you, just dabbled a bit in neo-tree might also try Oil soon

[@jonathanjaviermonsalvegira1447]

I had this error: E5108: Error executing lua ...ocal/share/nvim/lazy/plenary.nvim/lua/plenary/busted.lua:268: .../config/plugins/present.nvim/tests/parse_slides_spec.lua: 2: module 'present' not found: so I executed :lua print(package.path) since I couldn't see present I did the following package.path = package.path .. ";" .. vim.fn.stdpath("config") .. "/lua/config/plugins/present.nvim/lua/?.lua" at the beginning of the parse_slides_spec.lua and now is working. The following question is why Tj is no experiencing this error. I wonder if the problem is that I'm using stow for config files including nvim HEEEELP!

[@ib_pcpp]

Hi, you can add (not replace) the following line to your minimal_init.vim: set rtp+=~/.local/share/nvim/lazy/plenary.nvim/

[@jonathanjaviermonsalvegira1447]

@@ib_pcpp Thank you very much! It didn't work but you pointed out in the right direction. I put this line vim.opt.rtp:append("~/.config/nvim/lua/config/plugins/present.nvim") in one of the lua files that load when nvim starts and now the test are working