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@hockeymikey From https://nvchad.com/docs/quickstart/install

Tree-sitter-cli is required by nvim-treesitter plugin to install parsers.

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter also lists it as requirement.

According to them it's mandatory, however you only start to have issues when you try to install extra syntax highlights via :TSInstall.

@Ludolacra I didn't have it installed. How do we know its needed? Is it optional or man?

please add tree-sitter-cli to dependencies

Sorry everyone for the delay, school and life gets in the way, but I got a fix out. Works great on the two machines I tested on, but reach out if you find anything.

When I run it the first time on fresh install, I get:

Re-sourcing your config is not supported with lazy.nvim
Error detected while processing /usr/share/nvim/runtime/plugin/nvchad-starter/init.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/plugin/nvchad-starter/init.lua:2: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/plugin/nvchad-starter/init.lua: Vim(
luafile):No specs found for module "plugins"
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'nvim_command'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/plugin/nvchad-starter/init.lua:2: in main chunk

Installed this a while back without issues but recent install on a new machine results in this error during initialization :

Re-sourcing your config is not supported with lazy.nvim

Failed to source /usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua

vim/_editor.lua:0: Vim:No specs found for module "plugins"

stacktrace:

• vim/editor.lua:0 _in cmd
• /usr/share/nvchad/init.lua:17
• /usr/share/nvim/runtime/plugin/nvchad-starter/init.lua:2

Also noticing theres nothing other than "lazy-lock.json" in the ~/.config/nvim directory but that could just be my ignorance as I'm relatively noob, could've sworn that folder had more files to work with. Tried multiple reinstalls of both neovim and nvchad as well, same issue.

@D3vil0p3r Good call on the depends. Post install isn't really feasible because it's chrooted to the install dir, making it useless. I found another way using a plugin in the nvim root.

overwrite cannot be used in some cases, e.g., a user wants to use it on the creation of a Linux ISO by, e.g., archiso.

I'm giving a look on /usr/share/nvim/archlinux.lua of neovim package:

-- Modify runtimepath to also search the system-wide Vim directory
-- (eg. for Vim runtime files from Arch Linux packages)
vim.opt.runtimepath:append({ '/usr/share/vim/vimfiles', '/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after' })

nvchad-git package /usr/share/nvim/archlinux.lua file comes from nvchad.vim.template source file:

vim.api.nvim_command('set runtimepath+=/usr/share/nvchad')
vim.api.nvim_command('luafile /usr/share/nvchad/init.lua')

I think that the right solution should be moving the writing of archlinux.lua to a post install script. There is no need to create it because already provided by neovim package.

Furthermore, according to the official docs https://nvchad.com/docs/quickstart/install , you need to add some runtime dependencies as Nerd Fonts (e.g., JetBrains NF) and ripgrep.

@D3vil0p3r I haven't see this issue. Just --overwrite="*" probably?