Logging in neovim plugin
How to log from within neovim using plenary
While debugging blink-cmp-latex I needed access to log messages to see what was going on. This turned out to be easy enough using plenary but took me a second to find the incantation:
local log = require("plenary.log").new({
plugin = "blink-cmp-latex",
level = "info",
})
log.info("helpful info message")
log.debug("you get the idea")
It will write to ~/.local/state/nvim/plugin-name.log
1 and supports
the following log levels by default
- trace
- debug
- info
- warn
- error
- fatal
If you need more info documentation can be found here or just read the source (it’s not bad, promise).
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At least on my system… if you have manually configured neovim to dump logs somewhere it will respect that. I figure at that point you don’t need my help figuring out where they are.↩︎