I’m trying to use LazyVim https://www.lazyvim.org/ to create and edit ansible playbooks and roles, but for the live of my I don’t understand how to enable ansible-language-server.
The installation of lazyvim went flawless and after starting nvim I used the command :Mason to install:
- ansible-language-server
- ansible-lint
- yaml-language-server
- yamllint
but still, when opening a task or playbook file in nvim, i don’t get any of that cool features like snippets and automatic syntax checking like I hoped.
Can anyone give me a hint how to enable those? Mason says the plugins are installed, is it only a problem of nvim not recognizing the filetype as ansible? Do I need to enable some plugins via .config/nvim/lua/plugins? I’m out of my element here, help would be much appreciated.
Can you paste the output of :LspInfo when opening an ansible file? Wait a few seconds after opening the file to give the language server time to load
LspInfo
Language client log: /home/me/.local/state/nvim/lsp.log
Detected filetype: yaml
1 client(s) attached to this buffer:
Client: yamlls (id: 1, bufnr: [1])
filetypes: yaml, yaml.docker-compose
autostart: true
root directory: Running in single file mode.
cmd: /home/me/.local/share/nvim/mason/bin/yaml-language-server --stdio
Configured servers list: lua_ls, yamlls, bashls, ansiblels, tsserver, jsonls
Looks like the file is recognized as yaml but not as ansible.
that work, but since I don’t want to touch all my yaml files, I looked into the ftdetect file I already created and saw an error in my path definition.
its working now. last thing i haven’t found out is, how to tell nvim to check syntax periodically and not only when saving. other then that it works pretty well. thank you
I created an auto command for this
-- Ansible file pattern
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "BufRead", "BufNewFile", "BufEnter" }, {
group = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("Ansible", { clear = true }),
pattern = {
"*/roles/*/*/*.yaml",
"*/roles/*/*/.yml",
"main.yml",
"main.yaml",
"Debian*.yaml",
"Debian*.yml",
"*/ansible-devbox/*.yaml",
"*/ansible-devbox/*.yml",
"group_vars/*.yml",
"group_vars/*.yaml",
"files/*.yaml",
"files/*.yml",
"environments/*.yaml",
"environments/*.yml,",
},
callback = function()
vim.opt.filetype = "yaml.ansible"
end,
}),
