Hover: VSCode - doubled; NeoVim - different/none? + undefined globals

[caldwell-63]

How are you using the lua-language-server?

NeoVim

Which OS are you using?

Windows

What is the issue affecting?

Hover

Expected Behaviour

When I do hover on the standard type function, I'd expect brief message in english, like in VS Code:

Actual Behaviour

Reproduction steps

1. Go to '...'
2. Click '...'
3. See error '...'

Additional Notes

I tried adding misc.parameters: ["--locale=en-us"] to luarc, did not help

Log File

No response

[sumneko]

It seems that you add the source code of this extension into the workspace.library.
The source code includes locale files witch written in Lua.

[caldwell-63]

I'm not sure what to do about it. I have my workspace configured as nvim-lspconfig suggests, as follows:

      workspace = {
        library = vim.api.nvim_get_runtime_file('', true),
        maxPreload = 1000000,
        preloadFileSize = 1000000,
      },

Otherwise everything is undefined global. By the way, the default maxPreload or preloadFileSize thresholds seems to be too small, causing the type to be undefined global (out of all of them, the rest seems to load properly). This problem disappeared when I increased those values

[sumneko]

I don't know about the return values of vim.api.nvim_get_runtime_file, I can only suggest you remove the path of this server from it, otherwise you can find help from nvim-lspconfig.

By the way, the default maxPreload or preloadFileSize thresholds seems to be too small, causing the type to be undefined global (out of all of them, the rest seems to load properly).

Files listed in workspace.library should ignore the maxPreload and preloadFileSize. I will check it.

[caldwell-63]

I had this repo cloned into my nvim config directory 💀 (although it was .gitignored, if that matters)

Now that I deleted it from there, the hovers are not cryptic anymore, but they are different than from VS Code:

Let's consider print() hover:

VSCODE

function print(...any)
Receives any number of arguments and prints their values to stdout, converting each argument to a string following the same rules of tostring. The function print is not intended for formatted output, but only as a quick way to show a value, for instance for debugging. For complete control over the output, use string.format and io.write.
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Receives any number of arguments and prints their values to stdout, converting each argument to a string following the same rules of tostring. The function print is not intended for formatted output, but only as a quick way to show a value, for instance for debugging. For complete control over the output, use string.format and io.write.
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I just noticed it's doubled by the way...

NeoVim

function print(...any)
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 We are shadowing print so people can reliably print messages

Now standard globals like type, table, string are undefined globals:

[sumneko]

VSCODE

function print(...any)
Receives any number of arguments and prints their values to stdout, converting each argument to a string following the same rules of tostring. The function print is not intended for formatted output, but only as a quick way to show a value, for instance for debugging. For complete control over the output, use string.format and io.write.
View documents
Receives any number of arguments and prints their values to stdout, converting each argument to a string following the same rules of tostring. The function print is not intended for formatted output, but only as a quick way to show a value, for instance for debugging. For complete control over the output, use string.format and io.write.
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I just noticed it's doubled by the way...

I can not reproduce it.

[sumneko]

Now standard globals like type, table, string are undefined globals:

Please provide your server logs, it seems the built-in files are generated failed.

[Z3rio]

I had this issue aswell, it stopped after reinstalling my lua language server.

This is how I did that, (I've used mason to install it):

• Open a lua file & use :LspInfo
• Look at where lua_ls is stored
• In my case, I had to remove: mason/packages/lua-language-server, mason/bin/lua-language-server.cmd & mason/share/mason-schemas/lsp/lua-language-server.json
• Used :MasonInstallAll to reinstall