Faster Neovim Plugin Development with plenary.nvim

Use plenary.nvim to help you develop plugins faster.

4 min readOct 30, 2021

Overview

In this article, let’s walk through plenary.nvimwhich is a Neovim Lua library that provides essential Lua functions we need to develop Neovim plugins.

Popup

A popup menu can be easily created using the library.

Default Popup

local popup = require "plenary.popup"local function create_default_popup()
  local win_id = popup.create({ "menu item 1", "menu item 2", "menu item 3" }, {})
  print(win_id)
endcreate_default_popup()

Custom Popup

I can also specify the line, column, minimum width, border, and highlight.

vim.cmd [[highlight PopupColor ctermbg=black ctermfg=blue guifg=blue guibg=green]]local function create_highlight_popup()
  local win_id = popup.create({ "item 1", "item 2", "item 3" }, {
    line = 15,
    col = 45,
    minwidth = 20,
    border = true,
    highlight = "PopupColor",
  })
  print(win_id)
endcreate_highlight_popup()