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🔌 Plugin Spec

Spec Source

Property Type Description
[1] string? Short plugin url. Will be expanded using config.git.url_format. Can also be a url or dir.
dir string? A directory pointing to a local plugin
url string? A custom git url where the plugin is hosted
name string? A custom name for the plugin used for the local plugin directory and as the display name
dev boolean? When true, a local plugin directory will be used instead. See config.dev

A valid spec should define one of [1], dir or url.

Spec Loading

Property Type Description
dependencies LazySpec[] A list of plugin names or plugin specs that should be loaded when the plugin loads. Dependencies are always lazy-loaded unless specified otherwise. When specifying a name, make sure the plugin spec has been defined somewhere else.
enabled boolean? or fun():boolean When false, or if the function returns false, then this plugin will not be included in the spec
cond boolean? or fun(LazyPlugin):boolean Behaves the same as enabled, but won't uninstall the plugin when the condition is false. Useful to disable some plugins in vscode, or firenvim for example.
priority number? Only useful for start plugins (lazy=false) to force loading certain plugins first. Default priority is 50. It's recommended to set this to a high number for colorschemes.

Spec Setup

Property Type Description
init fun(LazyPlugin) init functions are always executed during startup
opts table or fun(LazyPlugin, opts:table) opts should be a table (will be merged with parent specs), return a table (replaces parent specs) or should change a table. The table will be passed to the Plugin.config() function. Setting this value will imply Plugin.config()
config fun(LazyPlugin, opts:table) or true config is executed when the plugin loads. The default implementation will automatically run require(MAIN).setup(opts) if opts or config = true is set. Lazy uses several heuristics to determine the plugin's MAIN module automatically based on the plugin's name. See also opts. To use the default implementation without opts set config to true.
main string? You can specify the main module to use for config() and opts(), in case it can not be determined automatically. See config()
build fun(LazyPlugin) or string or a list of build commands build is executed when a plugin is installed or updated. Before running build, a plugin is first loaded. If it's a string it will be run as a shell command. When prefixed with : it is a Neovim command. You can also specify a list to executed multiple build commands. Some plugins provide their own build.lua which is automatically used by lazy. So no need to specify a build step for those plugins.
rocks string[]? Add any luarocks dependencies.

Spec Lazy Loading

Property Type Description
lazy boolean? When true, the plugin will only be loaded when needed. Lazy-loaded plugins are automatically loaded when their Lua modules are required, or when one of the lazy-loading handlers triggers
event string? or string[] or fun(self:LazyPlugin, event:string[]):string[] or {event:string[]|string, pattern?:string[]|string} Lazy-load on event. Events can be specified as BufEnter or with a pattern like BufEnter *.lua
cmd string? or string[] or fun(self:LazyPlugin, cmd:string[]):string[] Lazy-load on command
ft string? or string[] or fun(self:LazyPlugin, ft:string[]):string[] Lazy-load on filetype
keys string? or string[] or LazyKeysSpec[] or fun(self:LazyPlugin, keys:string[]):(string | LazyKeysSpec)[] Lazy-load on key mapping

Refer to the Lazy Loading section for more information.

Spec Versioning

Property Type Description
branch string? Branch of the repository
tag string? Tag of the repository
commit string? Commit of the repository
version string? or false to override the default Version to use from the repository. Full Semver ranges are supported
pin boolean? When true, this plugin will not be included in updates
submodules boolean? When false, git submodules will not be fetched. Defaults to true

Refer to the Versioning section for more information.

Spec Advanced

Property Type Description
optional boolean? When a spec is tagged optional, it will only be included in the final spec, when the same plugin has been specified at least once somewhere else without optional. This is mainly useful for Neovim distros, to allow setting options on plugins that may/may not be part of the user's plugins.
specs LazySpec A list of plugin specs defined in the scope of the plugin. This is mainly useful for Neovim distros, to allow setting options on plugins that may/may not be part of the user's plugins. When the plugin is disabled, none of the scoped specs will be included in the final spec. Similar to dependencies without the automatic loading of the specs.
module false? Do not automatically load this Lua module when it's required somewhere
import string? Import the given spec module.