nvim-metals

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.¹ You can see all the available features here.

Prerequisites

• Before you get started you need to ensure that you are using nvim v.0.7.0 or newer.
• Ensure Coursier is installed locally.²
• Remove F from shortmess³
• Ensure that you have all the LSP mappings for the core functionality you want setup.⁴
• Ensure plenary.nvim is installed.⁵
• Subscribe to this discussion which will notify you of any breaking changes.
• Unfamiliar with Lua and Neovim? Check out the great nanotee/nvim-lua-guide.

Installation

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.¹

Example if using packer:

use({'scalameta/nvim-metals', requires = { "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim" }})

Getting started

• You can find a full minimal example configuration here.
• You can find the full documentation with :help vim-metals.
• You can find a full list of features here.

Settings and Commands

To view all of the available commands, check out :help metals-commands in the help docs. Similarly, to see the available configuration settings check out :help metals-settings.

Integrations

To see the full details on the available configurations, checkout out :help metals-integrations. The currently available integrations are:

• nvim-dap
• Telescope

Footnotes

1. If you're familiar with nvim and LSP you'll probably know of nvim-lspconfig which also has a Metals configuration. Note that this is a very minimal version with no specific Metals commands and no Metals extensions. You can see more info on this here. DO NOT try to use Metals both with nvim-lspconfig and with nvim-metals as stuff will not work right. ↩ ↩²

2. nvim-metals uses Coursier to download and update Metals. NOTE: On Windows, you should run coursier or cs.exe once from the command line as this is how it will install itself. Once this is done you should add C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Coursier\data\bin to your path. To verify that it is properly installed you can run cs --help from a new shell. ↩

3. vim.opt_global.shortmess:remove("F") will do what you need. If you don't know what shortmess is, check out :h shortmess. Without doing this, autocommands that deal with filetypes prohibit messages from being shown, so some of the messages we show to help users get started may not be shown. If you're confident you don't need help setting up, then just remove this, and nvim-metals will work fine, but any log messages won't actually be shown to you if something goes wrong with nvim-metals. ↩

4. 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. ↩

5. You're more than likely already relying on for other plugins. However, make sure to also have this installed as Metals uses it for things like Jobs, popups, and paths. ↩