How to re-map leader?

[jsatk]

I added vim.g.mapleader = "," right before require('config.lazy'). And yet my leader is still <space>. Yes I've read the docs on LazyVim and its starter package extensively and combed the issues. Cannot find how to simply change my leader key.

[abeldekat]

Hello @jsatk,

Interpreting your question, I assume you setup LazyVim using its starter package.
It's a little confusing, as this is lazy.nvim's discussion forum.

The following does not look right:

I added vim.g.mapleader = "," right before require('config.lazy')

See this warning

Do not require autocmds, keymaps, lazy or options under lua/config/ or lazyvim.config manually. LazyVim will load those files automatically.

LazyVim sets the mapleader in its options.lua
Add to your personal options.lua:

vim.g.mapleader = ","

I hope I understood your setup correctly. Let me know otherwise.

[jsatk]

@abeldekat you're very kind. I was mixing up instructions from multiple places. This almost totally fixes it. The leader still isn't set correctly on the startup/splash screen. But everywhere else it is. I can live with that. Thank you very much for the kind response.

[abeldekat]

You're welcome!

[flov]

I'm having the same issue. I can't remap the leaderkey. It's always space even though I'm doing
vim.g.mapleader = "," before require("config.lazy") 🤯
What am I doing wrong?

[hydrox24]

I ran into this and it took a bit of hunting to find out what was happening, but I think I've got it. What's probably going on for both of you is that you have copied the default config.lazy file from the official installation documentation for Lazy.nvim. It includes the following lines which overwrite your mapleader setting.

-- Make sure to setup `mapleader` and `maplocalleader` before
-- loading lazy.nvim so that mappings are correct.
-- This is also a good place to setup other settings (vim.opt)
vim.g.mapleader = " "
vim.g.maplocalleader = "\\"

To fix this you can either:

1. remove the vim.g.leader lines above from your config.lazy file and set it earlier in your init.lua or similar.
2. edit these lines to set your preferred leader key. You probably also want to remove the lines where it is set elsewhere.

[jsatk]

Yeah this does it. It's by default in options.lua. I updated that to be the leader I preferred.