seems not working in neovim

[chunxuan-hs]

I installed the plugin in neovim (0.9) in mac.

With :EC I got a message like this:

Changes.vim: overwrite /var/folders/ct/gbl89k5s7s74t2p7s_x_ywp80000gn/T/nvim.chunxuan/14AHWL/1.old.txt? (y/n [n]) not over
written

More info with :CC

Error detected while processing function changes#Output:
line    6:
E731: using Dictionary as a String
line    7:
E731: using Dictionary as a String
line    8:
E731: using Dictionary as a String

The inidicator are not shown. Any ideas for potential issues?

[chrisbra]

Hmmmm, I'll have to check with Neovim

[Fausto-Korpsvart]

It works on Neovim in both, stable and nightly versions.

Here is my configuration for Lazy Plugin Manager, you can adapt it for Packer or other Plugin Manager.

{
	'chrisbra/changesplugin',
	config = function()
		vim.g.changes_add_sign = '│'
		vim.g.changes_delete_sign = '│'
		vim.g.changes_modified_sign = '│'
		vim.g.changes_vcs_system = 'git'
		vim.g.changeslineoverview = 1
		vim.g.changes_respect_signcolumn = 1
		vim.g.changes_fixed_sign_column = 1
	end,
},

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@chrisbra, I know this is not related to the problem of functioning in Neovim, but I'll take advantage of the comment.

My question is: is there a possibility to have hl-LineNr for the current plugin highlights? For example:

ChangesSignTextAddNr
ChangesSignTextDelNr
ChangesSignTextChNr

Or something like that, I have configured Neovim to not use the SignColumn and instead use the LineNumber with colours to show changes, is it possible to do this?, because I have recently done this configuration of not using the SignColumn and the plugin always works fine with the SignColumn, but I can't find a way to get the changes to be reflected in the LineNumber, Is this possible?

[chunxuan-hs]

@Fausto-Korpsvart Thanks for the comments. On my sides, the sign only show once, and disappear for additional edits.

[Fausto-Korpsvart]

@Fausto-Korpsvart Thanks for the comments. On my sides, the sign only show once, and disappear for additional edits.

@chunxuan-hs, That's strange, I haven't had any problems with this plugin, this is one of the plugins I always install when I change my configuration thanks to the option to show changes in files that don't have a git repo.

Have you checked the options you have set for Neovim or auto commands? Are you using a plugin to manage the SignColumn? I remember with the StatusCol Plugin or something like that, I was seeing this behaviour.

Maybe by trying a minimal installation, you can check where the problem is coming from.

[chunxuan-hs]

I have tried the config (init.vim) with only changesPlugin

call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugged')
Plug 'chrisbra/changesplugin'
call plug#end()

Still only see the sign on the first edit.

[chrisbra]

Hi, what exactly do you mean with:

My question is: is there a possibility to have hl-LineNr for the current plugin highlights? For example:

ChangesSignTextAddNr ChangesSignTextDelNr ChangesSignTextChNr

I know I haven't updated the plugin in a while, but it should be more or less stable. Not sure why it would go away after the first edit that @chunxuan-hs mentioend, sorry.

[Fausto-Korpsvart]

Hi, what exactly do you mean with:

My question is: is there a possibility to have hl-LineNr for the current plugin highlights? For example: ChangesSignTextAddNr ChangesSignTextDelNr ChangesSignTextChNr

I know I haven't updated the plugin in a while, but it should be more or less stable. Not sure why it would go away after the first edit that @chunxuan-hs mentioend, sorry.

Greetings, @chrisbra.

No, no, for me the plugin works perfectly, my question is if there is a possibility to add highlighting for numbers, like in hl-LineNr. I don't use the SignColumn to see the signs, for example to see the git diffs, I have set the numbers to highlight the modified lines, so I was wondering if there is an option for this plugin to highlight the numbers instead of seeing the signs in the SignColumn.

[chrisbra]

okay. Can you please show a screenshot of how it currently looks? Thanks

[Fausto-Korpsvart]

okay. Can you please show a screenshot of how it currently looks? Thanks

This is how it looks with SingColumn activated.

And with the SignColumn deactivated, it would be great if you could highlight the numbers with colours instead of the Signs; something like this:

[chrisbra]

ah okay. So this is with :set signcolumn=no? I believe the numbers cannot individually be highlighted. Or is this differently in Neovim?

[Fausto-Korpsvart]

ah okay. So this is with :set signcolumn=no? I believe the numbers cannot individually be highlighted. Or is this differently in Neovim?

Yes indeed, in the second screenshot it is the GitSigns plugin that I have configured to make the changes highlight the numbers.

As I said before, I recently use a configuration without SignColumn to have a little more space when I have several buffers open, and the Changes Plugin is very useful to check changes when I don't have git in the directory, that's why I was asking for this functionality in the plugin.