[lua] Requiring certain parts of config doesn't work

[winkelnp]

I've just migrated my config over to lua, and the require("bind") statement to source my keybindings is not working (I have a file called bind.lua in the Hyprland config directory, the windowrule import works fine).

I get the "your config has errors" banner, but it only states

require("bind"): bad argument #1 to '?' (string expected, got nil)

which doesn't tell me much. Copy-and-paste-ing the contents of the file to my hyprland.lua file works fine, which iiuc means that it's not an error with the contents?

Importing autostarts also doesn't seem to entirely work, but that doesn't throw any error for me.

Any help would be appreciated

[winkelnp]

Turns out I don't know how lua works, and the (by default) local variables I defined in hyprland.lua don't transfer to bind.lua, despite being called from within hyprland.lua. Setting these variables as global does the trick. This feels like it isn't how one should go about this though…

Also am I just not knowledgeable enough about lua or did the error message not tell me that?