formatter.nvim VS nvim-lsp-installer

Can anyone explain why someone would use null-ls if you're using the modern lsp setup (say, from kickstart.nvim). I see comments mentioning formatting. I see formatters mentioned several times. Why not just use https://github.com/mhartington/formatter.nvim?

I use null-ls (https://github.com/jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim), I haven't tried it for python, but haven't had trouble with lua, js, ts or rust. You can also look into formatter.nvim (https://github.com/mhartington/formatter.nvim).

I use formatter.nvim for formatting

For formatting, formatter.nvim is a good choice and has similar setup to nvim-lint.

I finally installed this formatter plugin and configured it to execute de clang-format command like this

mhartington/formatter.nvim is used for automatic code formatting. Its configuration also shows how to use nvim_create_augroup and nvim_create_autocmd from Lua.

This might have something to do with extmarks being clobbered when the new text is written. For example, here is a GitHub issue describing the problem: https://github.com/mhartington/formatter.nvim/issues/22 This is for formatter.nvim, but this would likely apply to any process that rewrites the whole buffer.

i have always had trouble with lsp formatting and null-ls (may just be me, i'm not super clued in) so i use formatter.nvim https://github.com/mhartington/formatter.nvim/

Take a look at formatter.nvim

I've had really good experience with formatter-nvim.

I had previous gotten a working setup with https://github.com/williamboman/nvim-lsp-installer however, I have been unable to get it working ever since.

The only way to stay up to date, is when you read the commits if you update the plugins. In this case for the lsp-installer in the commit bfa74f4 was mentioned that the plugin will no longer maintained

A word of caution, I believe lspinstall has been deprecated in favor of nvim-lspinstall which itself has also been deprecated in favor of mason-lspconfig

We have now migrated from nvim-lsp-instasller to mason which provides automatic LSP and null-ls configuration after installation

nvim-lsp-installer or mason.nvim. FYI lsp-zero also uses mason.nvim for managing installation.

I'm using nvim-lsp-installer it installs typescript when installing volar. So I had given it that path. Plus I had typescript locally installing since I'm using vue3+ts(vite) template

Though mason only recently replaced nvim-lsp-installer. Same author but they decided to make a complete rewrite given the broader scope beyond only providing language servers. And nvim-dap had it's initial release in late July. The actual dap servers are all kind of mature since they've been running on vscode for a couple of years or more now - and the protocol is apparently almost as old as lsp. So when I call them beta, it's more a commentary on the state of the neovim side of the ecosystem. If you mess around getting nvim-dap to work then there's a chance things might change over the coming months and you might have to return to configuring it more often than you'd like. In this sense for now I'm happy just to open vscode or another more appropriate IDE to debug. But I can see myself using the plugins in a year or two when they've matured.

Here are a few resources to get you started: 1. https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig 1. https://github.com/golang/tools/tree/master/gopls 1. https://github.com/williamboman/nvim-lsp-installer

Can recommend a combination of omnisharp-roslyn native LSP (installed manually or through something like mason or nvim-lsp-installer) with omnisharp-vim for some extra C#-niceties like OmniSharpRunTest, etc.