undefined global vim

[godalming123]

Describe the bug
When I open my init.lua I get errors saying undefined global vim this is quite annoying.

Also I would like to have documentation for the vim commands (such as vim.api.nvim_echo) for developing plugins in my editor if that is possible instead of just removing the warning.

To Reproduce

Use the default config and open init.lua then run MasonInstall lua-language-server

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Arch linux
• Terminal: Alacritty

** Neovim Version **

NVIM v0.8.3
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Compiled by builduser

Features: +acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"

  system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"

[girishji]

You can configure the lsp to recognize 'vim' as a global var. Something like this:

local servers = {
  lua_ls = {
    Lua = {
      diagnostics = {
        globals = { "vim", "describe", "it", "before_each", "after_each", "packer_plugins", "MiniTest" },
      },
    },
  },
}

[godalming123]

Would that add it my documentation when I press K

[feoh]

Are you folks still seeing this problem with the latest kickstart.nvim ?

[godalming123]

I don't see any changes in the upstream that would effect this issue but I will check
EDIT:
Can confirm that this is still a issue on master

[feoh]

Thanks for confirming.

OK, I think what I'm going to do is spin up a VM so I can test the stock config without fear of cross contamination with my existing customized version.

I'll do that and see if I can reproduce.

[feoh]

Hi there! Would you please consider upgrading to Neovim 0.9.0 ? I can't reproduce with a stock kickstart.nvim and an updated Neovim.

[godalming123]

Wierd, I have neovim 0.9.x and this is still a problem do you have the lua language server installed with mason

[feoh]

Nope. Can you please give me the exact module to install with :MasonInstall? Please add that to Steps to Reproduce above.

Thanks!

[godalming123]

It is called lua-language-server in Mason, and I have updated the steps to reproduce which is wierd because in the default config on line ~407 I thought it specified to install this by default

[feoh]

Ah, no, you're right. My bad. Running :Mason shows me the list of installed lsps and lua_language_server is in fact installed.

I wonder what's different about our respective configurations? You're using the latest files from kickstart.nvim right?

[godalming123]

Yep using latest kickstart.nvim

[feoh]

Seems like you're not the first to hit this, see this issue over on the lua-language-server repo.

Also seems from that bug description like it's intermittent and hard to pin down which makes it damnably annoying to try to reproduce.

Have you tried the proposed fix @girishji mentioned above? Please give that a whirl and let us know. Not sure what else to do with this otherwise.

[feoh]

No response for a week. I'm closing this for now.