nvim-metals is a Lua plugin built to provide a better experience while using
Metals, the Scala Language Server, with Neovim's built-in LSP
support. This plugin provides the
necessary commands you'll need to develop with nvim and Metals. This extension
also implements many of the custom Metals LSP extensions that will give you a
much richer experience than just using Metals with the default
nvim-lspconfig setup, as well as
automatically setting all of the correct init_options, and offering some
integrations with other projects such as
nvim-dap and
Telescope.
- Before you get started you need to ensure that you are using the latest stable version of nvim, v.0.5.x.
- Ensure Coursier is installed
on your machine.
nvim-metalsuses Coursier to download and update Metals. - Ensure that you have mappings created for functionality that you desire. By default methods for things like goto definition, find references, etc are there, but not automatically mapped. You can find a minimal example configuration here.
NOTE: This plugin works without needing to install
neovim/nvim-lspconfig. If you have
it installed for other languages, that's not a problem, but make sure you do not
have Metals configured through nvim-lspconfig while using this plugin. If you
have metals setup registered with nvim-lspconfig, you'll want to remove
it.
nvim-metals is just a plugin installed like any other Neovim plugin. For
example if using packer:
use({'scalameta/nvim-metals'})To get started with nvim-metals, please read :help nvim-metals.
This will give you a thorough overview of the setup and settings.
To view all of the available commands, check out :help metals-commands in the
help docs. Similarly, to see the available configuration options, check out
:help metals-options, and :help metals-settings for settings.
NOTE: You can find an example of a minimal configuration showing how to set various settings and options here.
To see the full details on the available configurations, checkout out :help metals-integrations. The currently available integrations are: