unexpected undefined globals: string, error

[FelipeLema]

I create an isolated file with the following content

error(string.format("abc%d", 1))

and it complains

dev/undefined.lua|1 col 1| [Lua Diagnostics.](undefined-global):Undefined global `error`.
dev/undefined.lua|1 col 7| [Lua Diagnostics.](undefined-global):Undefined global `string`.

[CppCXY]

Did the original LuaLS have this issue?

[FelipeLema]

nope, just opened with original LuaLS and it recognizes string & error (even shows correct docs)

worth noting: I have lazydev plugin with {library={path = "luvit-meta/library", words = {"vim%.uv"}}} as config

[CppCXY]

Maybe I need to update to the latest version, actually the current luals is only 3.11.

[CppCXY]

If it is not a platform that luals cannot support, I recommend directly using the original luals. This repository does not provide any improvement over the original luals.

[FelipeLema]

it's 64bit debian, btw

[CppCXY]

Can you try the latest release version? It has been updated to 3.13.1 and maintains the same layout as luals.

[FelipeLema]

it doesn't diagnose any errors in the isolated file now, but doing doc-symbol-at-point says it's a global undefined var. This is consistent with semantic tokens that show string and error as a variable, rather than a built-in

I tried in one of my neovim config files¹ and for (at least) string:

• semantic token describes it as a regular var (not built-in)
• documentation-at-point says it's a global, undefined var
• diagnosed as an error that it's an undefined global (undefined-global), which doesn't happen in the isolated file

none of the above happen to vim, which is another built-in, provided by lazydev

¹: that means I'm using https://github.com/folke/lazydev.nvim

[CppCXY]

I realized I forgot to include a debugger.lua file.

I'll take a look at it later. I'm mainly busy with language server development and only spend some time on this project on Fridays.