🛰️ nvim-navic

A simple statusline/winbar component that uses LSP to show your current code context. Named after the Indian satellite navigation system.

⚡️ Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.7.0
• nvim-lspconfig

📦 Installation

Install the plugin with your preferred package manager:

packer

use {
    "SmiteshP/nvim-navic",
    requires = "neovim/nvim-lspconfig"
}

vim-plug

Plug "neovim/nvim-lspconfig"
Plug "SmiteshP/nvim-navic"

⚙️ Setup

For nvim-navic to work, it needs attach to the lsp server. You can pass the nvim-navic's attach function as on_attach while setting up the lsp server.

Note: nvim-navic can attach to only one server per buffer.

Example:

local navic = require("nvim-navic")

require("lspconfig").clangd.setup {
    on_attach = function(client, bufnr)
        navic.attach(client, bufnr)
    end
}

NOTE: You can set vim.g.navic_silence = true to supress error messages thrown by nvim-navic. However this is not recommended as the error messages indicate that there is problem in your setup. That is, you are attaching nvim-navic to servers that don't support documentSymbol or are attaching navic to multiple servers for a single buffer.

🪄 Customise

Use the setup function to modify default parameters.

• icons : Indicate the type of symbol captured. Default icons assume you have nerd-fonts.
• highlight : If set to true, will add colors to icons and text as defined by highlight groups NavicIcons* (NavicIconsFile, NavicIconsModule.. etc.), NavicText and NavicSeparator.
• depth_limit : Maximum depth of context to be shown. If the context hits this depth limit, it is truncated.
• depth_limit_indicatior : Icon to indicate that depth_limit was hit and the shown context is truncated.

navic.setup {
    icons = {
        File          = " ",
        Module        = " ",
        Namespace     = " ",
        Package       = " ",
        Class         = " ",
        Method        = " ",
        Property      = " ",
        Field         = " ",
        Constructor   = " ",
        Enum          = "練",
        Interface     = "練",
        Function      = " ",
        Variable      = " ",
        Constant      = " ",
        String        = " ",
        Number        = " ",
        Boolean       = "◩ ",
        Array         = " ",
        Object        = " ",
        Key           = " ",
        Null          = "ﳠ ",
        EnumMember    = " ",
        Struct        = " ",
        Event         = " ",
        Operator      = " ",
        TypeParameter = " ",
    },
    highlight = false,
    separator = " > ",
    depth_limit = 0,
    depth_limit_indicator = "..",
}

For highlights to work, highlight groups must be defined. These may be defined in your colourscheme, if not you can define them yourself too as shown in below code snippet.

Example highlight definitions

vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsFile",          {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsModule",        {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsNamespace",     {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsPackage",       {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsClass",         {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsMethod",        {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsProperty",      {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsField",         {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsConstructor",   {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsEnum",          {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsInterface",     {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsFunction",      {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsVariable",      {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsConstant",      {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsString",        {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsNumber",        {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsBoolean",       {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsArray",         {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsObject",        {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsKey",           {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsNull",          {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsEnumMember",    {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsStruct",        {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsEvent",         {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsOperator",      {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicIconsTypeParameter", {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicText",               {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})
vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NavicSeparator",          {default = true, bg = "#000000", fg = "#ffffff"})

If you have a font patched with codicon.ttf, you can replicate the look of VSCode breadcrumbs using the following icons

VSCode like icons

navic.setup {
  icons = {
    File = ' ',
    Module = ' ',
    Namespace = ' ',
    Package = ' ',
    Class = ' ',
    Method = ' ',
    Property = ' ',
    Field = ' ',
    Constructor = ' ',
    Enum = ' ',
    Interface = ' ',
    Function = ' ',
    Variable = ' ',
    Constant = ' ',
    String = ' ',
    Number = ' ',
    Boolean = ' ',
    Array = ' ',
    Object = ' ',
    Key = ' ',
    Null = ' ',
    EnumMember = ' ',
    Struct = ' ',
    Event = ' ',
    Operator = ' ',
    TypeParameter = ' '
  }
}

🚀 Usage

nvim-navic does not alter your statusline or winbar on its own. Instead, you are provided with these two functions and its left up to you how you want to incorporate this into your setup.

• is_available() : Returns boolean value indicating whether output can be provided.
• get_location(opts) : Returns a pretty string with context information. Using opts table you can override any of the options, format same as the table for setup function.

Examples

Native method

Lua

vim.o.statusline = "%{%v:lua.require'nvim-navic'.get_location()%}"
--  OR
vim.o.winbar = "%{%v:lua.require'nvim-navic'.get_location()%}"

Vimscript

set statusline+=%{%v:lua.require'nvim-navic'.get_location()%}
"   OR
set winbar+=%{%v:lua.require'nvim-navic'.get_location()%}

feline

An example feline setup

local navic = require("nvim-navic")

table.insert(components.active[1], {
    provider = function()
        return navic.get_location()
    end,
    enabled = function()
        return navic.is_available()
    end
})

require("feline").setup({components = components})
--  OR
require("feline").winbar.setup({components = components})

lualine

An example lualine setup

local navic = require("nvim-navic")

require("lualine").setup({
    sections = {
        lualine_c = {
            { navic.get_location, cond = navic.is_available },
        }
    }
})

galaxyline

An example galaxyline setup

local navic = require("nvim-navic")
local gl = require("galaxyline")

gl.section.right[1]= {
    nvimNavic = {
        provider = function()
            return navic.get_location()
        end,
        condition = function()
            return navic.is_available()
        end
    }
}

If you have a creative use case and want the raw context data to work with, you can use the following function

• get_data() : Returns a table of intermediate representation of data. Table of tables that contain 'kind', 'name' and 'icon' for each context.

An example output of get_data function:

 {
    {
        name = "myclass",
        type = "Class",
        icon = " ",
        kind = 5
    },
    {
        name = "mymethod",
        type = "Method",
        icon = " ",
        kind = 6
    }
 }