Is it possible to automatically load plugin/*.fnl files?

[iagoleal]

Hello!
It has been quite some time since #44 and with hotpot 0.9 there is now support for automatically loading ftplugin/*.fnl. Thus, it got me wondering if is there any way to also automatically load plugin/*.fnl files.

I tried putting runtime! plugin/**/*.fnl in my config but got an error message

could not find module path for require command (not descendent of a 'fnl' dir?)

Is there any way to circumvent this 'fnl' dir limitation? From what I understood, nvim-moonwalk is inspired by hotpot and supports this. So I imagine there must be some way to also do that from hotpot.

Thanks!

[rktjmp]

Honestly its not a nvim feature I use a lot. I think we can hook the SourecCmd autocommand and do what we do for FTPlugins, but I am not sure if that will count as "automatic". Eg, does nvim automatically run that, and can we hook it as we want, or does it depend on you putting a call to runtime! in your config -- which is still sort of automatic, or more automatic than right now!

I think it should also include after/ dirs? Not 100% on how nested those can be (eg: after/ftplugin/x.fnl). They might be tricky.

Its also not without some cost since we need to search all the dirs for files that match plugins/**/*.fnl, but I also yolo'd that consideration away for ftplugins -- I think the default-on behaviour is much nicer and probably better to expose an "opt out" switch if needed than requiring opt in.

If your ok with filthy disgusting lua files in your dirs, you can (should be able to?) get it working now with a .hotpot.lua file or similar autocommand as described in the "init.fnl" section of the cookbook.

ref: #121

[rktjmp]

I believe it should be working as of fc8715e.

There are some quirks, we can only run after all of neovims loading has finished, so plugin/x.fnl is actually run after after/plugin/x.lua. There isn't any way around that but if its an issue you can compile to plugin/x.lua with .hotpot.lua or api.make. I think for most people this wont matter...

[iagoleal]

Thanks, it works like a charm!
I like using the plugin/ folder for modularizing parts of my config instead of calling a lot of requires. Now I don't some lua wrappers for that anymore!

[rktjmp]

Great! As I said, I dont really use that feature much -- probably because hotpot didn't support it! If you hit bugs or oddities definitely open an issue.