Issues configuring obsidian.nvim

[pete-dot-m]

Hello!
I'll apologize in advance as this may be a bit long, but I wanted to include as much information as possible...
First off:
Pop! Os latest (22.04 w/ kernel 6.6.10-76060610)
I3 v4.23
NeoVim v0.9.5 using Lazy for plugin management
obsidian.nvim v3.2.0
Alacritty v0.14.0-dev
Obsidian 1.5.3

I have my Obsidian vault configured as "myvault" stored in ~/vaults/myvault and have configured the Git plugin to sync to without issue. Everything from the Obsidian side works as expected.

My issues come up when trying to get nvim/obsidian.nvim up and running. As stated above, I'm using Lazy for package management, and I've got my individual configs split out into separate .lua files, same as omerxx' dotfiles

pete@pop-os: ~
$ tree vaults                                                                                                                           [8:21:53]
vaults
└── myvault
    ├── 0.Inbox
    │   ├── 2024-02-13.md
    │   └── something.md
    ├── 1.Projects
    │   ├── City Service.md
    │   └── NLWO.md
    ├── 2.Areas
    ├── 3.Resources
    │   └── 2nd Brain.md
    ├── 4.Archive
    ├── My Areas.md
    ├── My Projects.md
    ├── My Resources.md
    └── Templates
        └── Resource Template.md

7 directories, 9 files

I add the reference to my vault in my obsidian.lua file:

obsidian.lua...

require("obsidian").setup({
    workspaces = {
      {
         name = "myvault",
         path = "~/vaults/myvault",
      },
    },
    completion = {
       -- Set to false to disable completion.
      nvim_cmp = true,
    ...

But no matter how I name my vault and/or directory structure, I always get the following error when starting up nvim:

For those interested, I've captured the rest of my relevant setup:

init.lua...

...
require('plugins.obsidian')
...

lazy.lua...

...
 {
        "epwalsh/obsidian.nvim", 
         version = "*",  -- recommended, use latest release instead of latest commit
         lazy = true,
         ft = "markdown",
         dependencies = {
          "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
        },
        opts = {
        },  
},
...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, pete-dot-m!

[epwalsh]

Hey @pete-dot-m, the first snippet looks fine:

require("obsidian").setup({
    workspaces = {
      {
         name = "myvault",
         path = "~/vaults/myvault",
      },
    },
    completion = {
       -- Set to false to disable completion.
      nvim_cmp = true,
    ...

But the 2nd snippet does not:

...
 {
        "epwalsh/obsidian.nvim", 
         version = "*",  -- recommended, use latest release instead of latest commit
         lazy = true,
         ft = "markdown",
         dependencies = {
          "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
        },
        opts = {
        },  
},
...

The problem with the 2nd snippet is that opts is an empty table, so no workspaces are defined, which would lead to that error.

[epwalsh]

Generally you want to let lazy call the plugin's setup method (like it does in the 2nd snippet) instead of calling it directly (like in your first snippet. But you definitely don't want both. So I would remove the first snippet, wherever that is, and change the 2nd to this:

...
 {
       "epwalsh/obsidian.nvim", 
        version = "*",  -- recommended, use latest release instead of latest commit
        lazy = true,
        ft = "markdown",
        dependencies = {
          "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
        },
        opts = {
          workspaces = { .. },
          ...
        },  
},
...

[pete-dot-m]

Ok, thanks, I'll give that a try.
I should have pointed out that lazy's init.lua is called before obsidian's, but I'll try it regardless and report back.

Thanks!

[pete-dot-m]

That seems to have fixed it. What I ended up doing was remove the empty opts table from the lazy init.lua and kept all the plug-in specific stuff in the obsidian.lua file.

Thanks for the quick response!

Pete