bug: lazy.nvim hides print() output for files in plugin/*

[andrewferrier]

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Neovim version (nvim -v)

v0.9.0-dev-622+g08ebf8d3a

Operating system/version

Linux lawn 6.1.3-arch1-1

Describe the bug

I split up my personal configuration so that the majority of what many people put in ~/.config/nvim/init.lua is in files in ~/.config/nvim/plugins/*.lua. I think this is a moderately-common pattern, and one that NeoVim supports by default.

Since lazy.nvim takes over the process of loading the files in plugins/, it appears that configuration loaded that way no longer outputs print() statements that would normally output at startup (I've also tried vim.cmd('echo "xyz"') too). They don't appear in :messages.

This is not much more than annoying at this stage, since it makes debugging my configuration trickier.

I would assume this is happening because lazy.nvim is pre-compiling this code, and perhaps there is an optimization which removes print()? I'm not sure if this is deliberate, however. Certainly I would argue it's not correct - there are many legitimate reasons to want to print() during startup, even if it's not that common.

Thanks as always for all your hard work on the plugin.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create ./.repro/config/nvim/plugins/x.lua containing just print('foo').
2. Run NeoVim with repro init.lua as below.
3. Type :messages.
4. bar is printed from init.lua, but not foo from x.lua.

Expected Behavior

Both foo and bar are printed.

Repro

-- DO NOT change the paths and don't remove the colorscheme
local root = vim.fn.fnamemodify("./.repro", ":p")

-- set stdpaths to use .repro
for _, name in ipairs({ "config", "data", "state", "cache" }) do
  vim.env[("XDG_%s_HOME"):format(name:upper())] = root .. "/" .. name
end

-- bootstrap lazy
local lazypath = root .. "/plugins/lazy.nvim"
if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
  vim.fn.system({ "git", "clone", "--filter=blob:none", "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git", lazypath, })
end
vim.opt.runtimepath:prepend(lazypath)

-- install plugins
local plugins = {
  "folke/tokyonight.nvim",
  -- add any other plugins here
}
require("lazy").setup(plugins, {
  root = root .. "/plugins",
})

vim.cmd.colorscheme("tokyonight")
-- add anything else here

print('bar')

[folke]

I don't remember why, but for some reason I did silent source plugin/*. That silent obviously should not be there. Fixed now!

[andrewferrier]

Great, thanks!