Neovim 0.12 and blink

[resistorsoftware]

I have a fairly simply setup with neovim 0.12 whereby I have blink as a plugin, installed and as an example, the ruby-lsp.

I setup blink using the vim.pack.add() function, and enabled the ruby-lsp with vim.lsp.enable({"ruby-lsp"}) and it seems when I am working on a filetype of ruby, the LSP is working fine.

However, I get nothing from blink in terms of completions or snippets. Nothing. Nada. It is like blink is completely blind to my LSP and the fact that I have snippets. I am sure it is something easy to fix, like deleting the whole shebang and going back to LazyVim and Neovim 0.11 but anyway... hoping someone out there has ever succeeded in getting blink.cmp and the new style of neovim 0.12 configs to work with LSP servers. I get completions for lua just fine... but not from blink. Just the standard completions of neovim 0.12.

What is the secret sauce to getting blink.cmp working in this case?

[Saghen]

Sharing your config would help, did you call require('blink.cmp').setup({})?

[resistorsoftware]

Of course!

local pack = vim.pack

-- first we make sure we have LuaSnip to run the show
pack.add({
	{
		src = "https://github.com/L3MON4D3/LuaSnip",
		version = "v2.*",
		build = "make install_jsregexp",
	}
})
require'luasnip'.setup()

-- second we should ensure the friendly ssnippet engine exists
pack.add({ "rafamadriz/friendly-snippets" })

-- now we add blink
pack.add({
	{
		src = "https://github.com/saghen/blink.cmp",
		build = 'cargo build --release',
		dependencies = {
			"L3MON4D3/LuaSnip",
			"rafamadriz/friendly-snippets"
		},
		version = '1.*',
		opts = {
			keymap = { preset = "default" },
			snippets = { preset = "luasnip" },
			fuzzy = { implementation = "prefer_rust_with_warning" },
			appearance = {
				nerd_font_variant = "mono"
			},
			completion = {
				accept = {
					auto_brackets = { enabled = true },
				},
				documentation = {
					auto_show = true
				},
				ghost_text = { enabled = false },
			},
			sources = {
				default = { "lsp", "path", "snippets", "buffer" },
			},
			cmdline = { enabled = false },
			signature = { enabled = false },
		},
		event = "InsertEnter",
	},
})
require'blink.cmp'.setup({})

local luasnip = require('luasnip')
luasnip.config.set_config({ enable_autosnippets = true })
require("luasnip.loaders.from_vscode").lazy_load()

When I source this, I get a message about how the fuzzy finder is missing and should be built with the line build = 'cargo build --releaase' but I have that, to no effect. I hope this exposes me for the dumb mistakes I am making here.

[resistorsoftware]

This seems to be the sticking point. :messages tells me I have no rust build, and no version exists for '1.*' so it falls back to lua.

Interesting. I exchanged version = '1.*' for a tag = '1.6.1' and received the same message about fuzzy, but the install worked, and so now completions do indeed show up. So the process of using vim.pack.add() is getting closer for me! Seems the neovim 0.12 is struggling (like me) with the finding of versions, or is it tags?

[Saghen]

Oh you're trying to use the built-in package manager as if it's lazy.nvim. The opts goes into the setup({}) call and the version can be specified like version = vim.version.range('*') in the vim.pack call. You have to add the dependencies via pack.add directly, dependencies doesn't exist. You should read through the vim.pack docs, they're quite good.

[resistorsoftware]

Ok thanks. It is true. I was relying on the state of the art AI for clues on use, and it is 100% wrong as usual. On me to read the actual docs and get going that way. Thanks!