snacks.nvim/docs/debug.md

🍿 debug

Utility functions you can use in your code.

Personally, I have the code below at the top of my init.lua:

_G.dd = function(...)
  Snacks.debug.inspect(...)
end
_G.bt = function()
  Snacks.debug.backtrace()
end
vim.print = _G.dd

What this does:

• Add a global dd(...) you can use anywhere to quickly show a notification with a pretty printed dump of the object(s) with lua treesitter highlighting
• Add a global bt() to show a notification with a pretty backtrace.
• Override Neovim's vim.print, which is also used by := {something = 123}

📦 Module

Snacks.debug()

---@type fun(...)
Snacks.debug()

Snacks.debug.backtrace()

Show a notification with a pretty backtrace

Snacks.debug.backtrace()

Snacks.debug.inspect()

Show a notification with a pretty printed dump of the object(s) with lua treesitter highlighting and the location of the caller

Snacks.debug.inspect(...)

Snacks.debug.log()

Log a message to the file ./debug.log.

• a timestamp will be added to every message.
• accepts multiple arguments and pretty prints them.
• if the argument is not a string, it will be printed using vim.inspect.
• if the message is smaller than 120 characters, it will be printed on a single line.

Snacks.debug.log("Hello", { foo = "bar" }, 42)
-- 2024-11-08 08:56:52 Hello { foo = "bar" } 42

Snacks.debug.log(...)

Snacks.debug.profile()

Very simple function to profile a lua function.

• flush: set to true to use jit.flush in every iteration.
• count: defaults to 100

---@param fn fun()
---@param opts? {count?: number, flush?: boolean}
Snacks.debug.profile(fn, opts)