vim.keymap.set not found

[alok]

Neovim version (nvim -v)

NVIM v0.7.0-dev+2338-g8f27c4a04

Vim (not Nvim) behaves the same?

N/A

Operating system/version

Macos monterey

Terminal name/version

kitty

$TERM environment variable

xterm-kitty

Installation

built from source on homebrew

How to reproduce the issue

I tried switching over to vim.keymap.set and got this:

Error detected while processing /Users/alokbeniwal/.config/nvim/init.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: /Users/alokbeniwal/.config/nvim/init.lua:54: attempt to call field 'set' (a nil value)

Expected behavior

no error

Actual behavior

the error above

[clason]

I cannot reproduce this. Make sure the installation actually succeeded (if you've built from source yourself at some point, you may need to brew link neovim --overwrite).

[alok]

echo $VIMRUNTIME gives /usr/local/Cellar/neovim/HEAD-8f27c4a/share/nvim/runtime, which is commit 8f27c4a0417c001fa2dedb6346673da501ea78e5.

I ran brew link just in case and no change.

[lewis6991]

Is this still an issue?

[orangestara]

I have the same problem：

处理 /Users/xxx/.config/nvim/init.lua 时发生错误:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: /Users/xxx/.config/nvim/lua/core/keybinds.lua:4: attempt to index field 'keymap' (a nil value)

actual code snippet:

vim.keymap.set("", "<Space>", "<Nop>", {noremap=true, silent=true})
vim.g.mapleader = " "

[muniter]

@orangestara can you confirm you actually have the runtime file. By running inside neovim !ls $VIMRUNTIME/lua/vim/keymap.lua and seeing the command is successful.

[juniway]

@muniter
When I executed, I get this error

ls: /usr/local/Cellar/neovim/HEAD-bdfea9d_1/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/keymap.lua: No such file or directory

my nvim version is:

NVIM v0.7.0-dev+719-gbdfea9d9a
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3

[juniway]

If I call :lua vim.keymap.set() manually, I also get this:

[clason]

This means your Neovim installation is broken. Remove Neovim (manually, if needed), then reinstall (with --overwrite --force, if needed).

[clason]

Now that Neovim 0.7 is released, you should just brew install neovim (no need to build from source).

[juniway]

@clason I re-installed neovim, but the problems still exist when I do :lua vim.keymap.set()

NVIM v0.8.0-dev+10-ge73ef5c09
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3

[zeertzjq]

@clason I re-installed neovim, but the problems still exist when I do :lua vim.keymap.set()

NVIM v0.8.0-dev+10-ge73ef5c09
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3

It is working as intended.

[juniway]

can you elaborate a little bit?

[zeertzjq]

can you elaborate a little bit?

You must pass arguments to that function.

[juniway]

@zeertzjq Thanks, suddenly Comment.nvim works, and I checked that /usr/local/Cellar/neovim/HEAD-e73ef5c/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/keymap.lua is actually there after reinstall neovim.

[davidc360]

Hope this helps the next person:
I kept getting keymap: no match, but manually running lua vim.keymap.set() works and I verified that keymap.lua exists.
Turns out changing the command from vim.keymap.set to lua vim.keymap.set makes it work.

[Lemanrp]

Can something in the instructions advise people to try adding "lua" in case of weird issues like this? I spend a few hours not figuring out why knap wasn't working on my nixos system. Same issue as Davidc360 had above and solution worked for me. thanks @davidc360