Completely lost trying to install this plugin manager.

[johnnymatthews]

I've used a .vimrc file to manage my Neovim installation for years. Now everyone seems to be moving to Lua so that what I'm trying to do to. I have a completely blank init.lua file. Based of the README of this project, I need to add the following into my init.lua file:

local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/lazy.nvim"
if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
  vim.fn.system({
    "git",
    "clone",
    "--filter=blob:none",
    "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git",
    "--branch=stable", -- latest stable release
    lazypath,
  })
end
vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath)

I can save and quit this file, and then open it again. Nothing special happens, which makes sense.

The next line of the Installation suggests that I simply need to add require("lazy").setup(plugins, opts) after that block of code I just copied in. I've done that so now my entire init.lua file looks like this:

local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/lazy.nvim"
if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
  vim.fn.system({
    "git",
    "clone",
    "--filter=blob:none",
    "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git",
    "--branch=stable", -- latest stable release
    lazypath,
  })
end
vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath)
require("lazy").setup(plugins, opts)

However, if I save, quit, and reopen this init.lua file I get the following error:

Error detected while processing BufReadPost Autocommands for "*":
Error executing lua callback: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:30: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nv
im/runtime/filetype.lua:31: BufReadPost Autocommands for "*"..FileType Autocommands for "*"..function <SN
R>1_LoadFTPlugin[20]..script /usr/share/nvim/runtime/ftplugin/lua.lua: Vim(runtime):E5113: Error while ca
lling lua chunk: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/language.lua:102: no parser for 'lua' languag
e, see :help treesitter-parsers
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'error'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/language.lua:102: in function 'add'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:113: in function 'new'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter.lua:41: in function '_create_parser'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter.lua:108: in function 'get_parser'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter.lua:445: in function 'start'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/ftplugin/lua.lua:2: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'nvim_cmd'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:31: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:30>
        [C]: in function 'nvim_buf_call'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:30: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:10>
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'nvim_cmd'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:31: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:30>
        [C]: in function 'nvim_buf_call'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:30: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:10>
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'nvim_buf_call'
        /usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:30: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/filetype.lua:10>
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Clearly I'm missing something. Anyone got any ideas, or should I just go back to using vimscript like a chump?

[vunhatchuong]

I have a dumb question, did you put a specific plugin URL instead of the word plugins? For example:

require("lazy").setup({
  "folke/which-key.nvim",
  { "folke/neoconf.nvim", cmd = "Neoconf" },
  "folke/neodev.nvim",
})

[melMass]

What is the value of plugins and opts ? The issue is probably in their definition