NvChad with auto-session wrong colors after LSP hook

[Patryk Kotarski]

Describe the bug
I'm not sure this is an NvChad issue but I have to start somewhere.
I copied most of the files of NvChad into my nvim configuration so that I can tweak here and there the parts I need but is mostly untouched.

I'm having a weird issue when using auto-session with lazy = false where the colors suddenly change to something that is completely different from my color scheme.

I'm using lazy = false because I couldn't figure out a way to load the plugin through lazy.

Here's a video of what happens:

Screen.Recording.2024-05-10.at.02.09.29.mov

As you can see when I load the file with auto-session enabled the color scheme changes and highlights some keywords in light blue.
When I disable it it doesn't happen (correct behaviour)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Add auto-session.lua to plugins
2. With content of

return {
  "rmagatti/auto-session",
  lazy = false,
  enabled = true,
  config = function()
    require("auto-session").setup({
      log_level = "error",
      auto_session_suppress_dirs = { "~/", "~/Projects", "~/Downloads", "/" },
    })
  end,
}

Expected behavior
The color scheme is kept as is

Screenshots
Already added above

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OSX

• Kitty

• vim --version
  NVIM v0.9.5
  Build type: Release
  LuaJIT 2.1.1710088188

  system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/neovim/0.9.5/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info

Additional context
No idea if this is related to NvChad or not but I couldn't figure out how exactly this framework works and fix the issue

[Sidhanth Rathod]

simplescreenrecorder-2024-05-10_08.27.28.mp4

unable to reproduce, i hope you are using latest nvchad

[Sidhanth Rathod]

have you disabled semantic highlighting?

[Patryk Kotarski]

I'm using NvChad 2.5.

Not sure what semantic highlight is? Could you provide more info?

I'm adding the plugin setting to plugin/auto-session.lua not init.lua, does that matter?

I think I'm using NvChad completely wrong and that's why I'm having this issue.

I pushed my dotfiles here if you are willing to have a look: https://github.com/patrykk21/dotfiles/tree/master/nvim

Particularly I think I'm very wrong about the plugins/init.lua 😅
But I didn't know how to update the dependencies or configurations of some plugins without copy and pasting the config.

[Sidhanth Rathod]

i'll test your config tonight and let u knowo

[Patryk Kotarski]

I'll buy a couple of coffees for the effort 🙏🏻 Thank you so much

[Sidhanth Rathod]

@patrykk21 go to your lspconfig and add on_init for lua_ls

[Sidhanth Rathod]

Also if you face discoloration of some highlight groups

just add this in your main init.lua file

dofile(vim.g.nvchad_theme .. "syntax")
dofile(vim.g.nvchad_theme .. "treesitter")

i know its a workaround, but that wrong color issue happens only with that session plugin

[Patryk Kotarski]

Thank you for your help!

So by adding dofile(vim.g.nvchad_theme .. "syntax") I don't have the issue with the session plugin anymore.
I added it to the config step of 'lspconfig` plugin.

But with or without the session plugin I noticed that my colors don't change whether I have LSP turned on or not, I thought LSP should be coloring text parts better?
I just want to make sure I'm not missing out on some LSP improvements

PS. sent you some 💵 for ☕

[Patryk Kotarski]

Oh... It's semanticTokens and NvChad disables them by default. Figured that out :)
I like it more disabled tbf hahah feels faster

I'd have a question about dofile - if I may.
What is it exactly and how do I use it properly?

[Sidhanth Rathod]

Thanks for the 💸

Oh... It's semanticTokens and NvChad disables them by default. Figured that out :) I like it more disabled tbf hahah feels faster

I'd have a question about dofile - if I may. What is it exactly and how do I use it properly?

dofile basically loads a lua file, like require function can be used to import lua modules with names. But in dofile you have to enter full path of the lua file. thats why i used the vim.g.base46_cache global !!

I thought LSP should be coloring text parts better

yes it should but i think in some languages only, if you get better semantic token highlights on non nvchad configs then raise an issue on base46 repo. Also you need to add our base46 semantic_tokens integration . Only a set of base46 integrations are loaded and compiled by default in nvchad.

To add a base46 integration, check https://nvchad.com/docs/config/theming/#integrations