Incompatibility with `telescope-ui-select.nvim`

[tapyu]

I've set up alpha-nvim to work along with Shatur/neovim-session-manager which, in turn, makes use of telescope-ui-select.nvim to handle vim.ui.select with telescope. Whenever I try to select a session in a bare neovim command, alpha-nvim wrongly alert me that the current session have change.

How to reproduce

1. save this file as minimal_init.lua

   require("packer").startup{function ()
     use 'wbthomason/packer.nvim'
     use 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim'
     use 'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim'
     use {'nvim-telescope/telescope-ui-select.nvim', requires =  'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim'}
     use 'Shatur/neovim-session-manager'
     use {
       'goolord/alpha-nvim',
       config = function ()
           require'alpha'.setup(require'alpha.themes.dashboard'.config)
       end
     }
   end
   }
   
   
   -- section manager config
   local Path = require('plenary.path')
   require('session_manager').setup({
     sessions_dir = Path:new(vim.fn.stdpath('data'), 'sessions'), -- The directory where the session files will be saved.
     path_replacer = '__', -- The character to which the path separator will be replaced for session files.
     colon_replacer = '++', -- The character to which the colon symbol will be replaced for session files.
     autoload_mode = require('session_manager.config').AutoloadMode.Disabled, -- Define what to do when Neovim is started without arguments. Possible values: Disabled, CurrentDir, LastSession
     autosave_last_session = true, -- Automatically save last session on exit and on session switch.
     autosave_ignore_not_normal = true, -- Plugin will not save a session when no buffers are opened, or all of them aren't writable or listed.
     autosave_ignore_filetypes = { -- All buffers of these file types will be closed before the session is saved.
       'gitcommit',
     },
     autosave_only_in_session = false, -- Always autosaves session. If true, only autosaves after a session is active.
     max_path_length = 80,  -- Shorten the display path if length exceeds this threshold. Use 0 if don't want to shorten the path at all.
   })
   
   require("telescope").setup {
     extensions = {
       ["ui-select"] = {
         require("telescope.themes").get_dropdown {}
       }
     }
   }
   
   -- load_extension
   require("telescope").load_extension("ui-select")
   

2. run nvim -u minimal_init.lua
3. :SessionManager load_session (you should have a session saved, of course. If you don't, just run :SessionManager save_current session)
4. Select any session.

You will see this behavior:

Expected behavior

alpha-nvim should go to session directly.

[goolord]

... I don't really know what's going on here but alpha doesn't touch sessions at all. i use neovim-session-manager without telescope-ui-select.nvim and it works fine. I can try to dig around and see what's up with this though

[tapyu]

but alpha doesn't touch sessions at all.

This statement might be true but that's not where the problem probably lies. It seems that alpha-nvim are seeing a modified unsaved buffer, when actually there isn't anything...

i use neovim-session-manager without telescope-ui-select.nvim and it works fine

Yeah, this is right, I can reproduce the same here. It works fine without telescope-ui-select.nvim

I can try to dig around and see what's up with this though

I can do it as soon as I have a free time, which is quite hard nowadays :cold_sweat:

[goolord]

yea you can't display text without creating a buffer. since the buffer type is nofile i would surmise it wouldn't effect the session

[GabMus]

A bit of a shot in the dark, but try calling the telescope-ui-select callback using vim.schedule

[benbrastmckie]

... I don't really know what's going on here but alpha doesn't touch sessions at all. i use neovim-session-manager without telescope-ui-select.nvim and it works fine. I can try to dig around and see what's up with this though

I'm trying to get this setup to work for me, i.e., alpha-nvim + neovim-sessions-manager. When I enter the command SessionManager load_session from the start screen it works great. However, I've also added the following button which does not work:

	dashboard.button("l", "Load session", ":SessionManager load_session <CR>"),

Instead, when I hit l for 'Load session' I get: "No such subcommand: load_sessions". I must be missing something small as it seems that it is close to working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[goolord]

the error message says "No such subcommand: load_sessions"? or is that a typo only present in your comment

[benbrastmckie]

Yes my typo. It is in fact singular.

[goolord]

@benbrastmckie i finally figured out what your bug is. there is a space here load_session <CR> that's getting parsed as the session name " " by that plugin. just remove the space and your button should work 👍

[goolord]

@tapyu is this still a problem for you? i'm using these plugins in this way with no problems

[benbrastmckie]

Hey sorry for the slow reply. I got it working just great. Thanks for the help!