Failed to load removed plugin

[willyamjarcand]

I use the kickstart.nvim config and I add custom plugins in the nvim/lua/custom/plugins directory. It looks something like

config/nvim/
├── init.lua
└── lua
    ├── autocmds.lua
    ├── custom
    │   └── plugins
    │       ├── init.lua
    │       └── neo-tree.lua
    └── kickstart
        └── plugins
            ├── autoformat.lua
            └── debug.lua

Those customs plugins get loaded via the following code in my nvim/init.lua

require('lazy').setup({
  -- other stuff ...
  { import = 'custom.plugins },
}, {})

My problem is that sometimes I'll add a new plugin, and for that I create a new lua file in my custom/plugins dir. This works fine, except when I remove said plugin. If I delete that file, Lazy generates an error everytime I open neovim.

I tried :Lazy clean but that didn't fix my problem. If I :Lazy profile, I still see the removed files in lazy.nvim/spec/custom.plugins.my_removed_plugin.

How do I fix this?

Error message:

Error detected while processing /Users/willyamarcand/.config/nvim/init.lua:
Failed to load custom.plugins.language-client-neovim
...local/share/nvim/lazy/lazy.nvim/lua/lazy/core/plugin.lua:300: module 'custom.plugins.language-client-neovim' not found

edit: This doesn't happen on a fresh machine. If I run neovim with the same config on a machine that never had the files I removed, it works fine.

[folke]

I can't reproduce this. I also don't see how this can happen.

[willyamjarcand]

I don't know if this helps, but this is what :Lazy profile shows:

custom/plugins/vim-sorbet.lua and custom/plugins/language-client-neovim.lua are not files that exist

[folke]

What is your lazy setup?

[folke]

What's the output of:

require("lazy.core.util").lsmod("custom.plugins", function(modname, modpath)
  print(modname .. ": " .. modpath)
end)

put it in a file with lua extension and do :luafile %

[folke]

And what you're saying is that those files don't exist?

[willyamjarcand]

Yeah, they did at one point but I've deleted them

[folke]

That's just not possible. We're using vim.loop.fs_scandir

[folke]

In a shell, what does ls /Users/willyamarcand/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins/language-client-neovim.lua say?

[willyamjarcand]

oh yeah, it's there. I was looking at /Users/willyamarcand/dotfiles/config/nvim/
Thanks for helping me debug this.

[willyamjarcand]

Do you happen to know why those symlinks don't get removed when I remove them from dotfiles/config/nvim ? Is that an rcm thing

[willyamjarcand]

It looks like they thought about dealing with deleted files but decided against it as per this issue: thoughtbot/rcm#147

Thank you so so much for your help! I'll close this now

[folke]

Kinda odd that rcm doesn't handle that indeed