LuaLS / LuaLS/lua-language-server

Code colors completely gone

Open
#2,701 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Dominant language
Lua
Stars
4.4k
Forks
442
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

How are you using the lua-language-server?

Other

Which OS are you using?

Linux

What is the issue affecting?

Other

Expected Behaviour

There should be colors in the code

Actual Behaviour

there's none

Reproduction steps

open any lua file in helix with this language configuration

[[language]]
name = "lua"
scope = "source.lua"
roots = ["."]
file-types = ["lua"]
comment-token = "--"
indent = { tab-width = 4, unit = "    " }
language-servers = ["lua-language-server"]

this has worked in the past, but it's suddenly broken

Additional Notes

No response

Log File

No response

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Reproduce the missing colors in Helix with the Lua language configuration shown in the issue, then inspect the language-server interaction involved in code coloring. Done means that colors are restored for Lua files in this configuration and the reproduction no longer occurs.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
lua
Domain
devtools
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.