hotpot.nvim VS nvim.conf

hotpot.nvim

There are some plugins out there that provide the Lua glue code (e.g. hotpot.nvim), but you will still have to depend on Fennel. I have not tried any of these plugins, so I have no idea how well they work. Neovim is not Emacs, and Lua is a fine language by itself, so that's what I prefer to stick with. And Vim script of course, it may be bad for plugins, but it's actually quite nice for configuration.

Hotpot: this is mostly just a Fennel compiler, but it is quite nice at that

Another method would be to use hotpot: https://github.com/rktjmp/hotpot.nvim. It's much simpler with what it does, doesn't include the macros and helper functions but you might prefer it. Here's an example: https://github.com/rktjmp/paperplanes.nvim

While there isn't an lsp, https://github.com/rktjmp/hotpot.nvim can give you diagnostics and https://github.com/Olical/conjure can give you cmp completions

I see there are 3 approaches Using aniseed: https://github.com/Olical/aniseed Using hotpot: https://github.com/rktjmp/hotpot.nvim Using plain fennel: https://git.sr.ht/~hauleth/dotfiles/tree/master/item/vim/.config/nvim/init.lua (this is just the one I found, lmk if theres a better version of this)

Hey y'all, I'm running into this issue. The solution is to remove the directory ~/.cache/nvim/hotpot. I would like to automate this when I upgrade my home environment packages as the issue seems to happen after a home-manager switch --flake --recreate-lock-file operation.

Here's a macro I wrote ages ago for my settings. Some might turn their noses up at doing this, because really you're just making a potentially leaky if not dysfunctional abstraction over nvim's actual API, but, well I did it for fun 🤷‍♂️.

I am using Lazy with Hotpot right now, maybe my dotfiles can help you: https://github.com/datwaft/nvim.conf

Here is the code: https://github.com/datwaft/nvim.conf/blob/main/fnl/conf/health.fnl

scripts under after/ftplugin are loaded on their respective filetype, so you can use those for per-filetype settings. See https://github.com/datwaft/nvim.conf/tree/main/after/ftplugin for an example

datwaft's nvim.conf is often cited as a good fennel config to peak at.

Here is my telescope configuration, it could be of any use: https://github.com/datwaft/nvim/blob/master/fnl/crux/core/pack/telescope.fnl

datwaft has a pretty extensive fennel config, he uses hotpot and probably pushes it hardest, at least he's been great at finding all the sharp edges where fennel, hotpot and neovim intersect!

I am using Fennel (which is a Lisp that compiles to Lua) with Aniseed and some personal macros that you can see here to make my configuration idiomatic and good looking.