ellisonleao / dotenv.nvim

A minimalist .env support for Neovim

dotenv.nvim's Issues

Please expose `load` as a public function

Hello!

Thanks for this plugin! I primarily use this to load some secrets for Github integration into Neovim.

However, can you please expose the load function to the end users? I need to load a .env file that's outside the cwd (and parents) and I had to dig into the source to find a Lua solution (using Lazy package manager):

return {
  {
    'ellisonleao/dotenv.nvim',
    opts = {
      enable_on_load = true,
    },
    config = function(_, opts)
      require('dotenv').setup(opts)

      local dotfiles = vim.uv.fs_realpath(vim.fn.expand('~/.config/nvim/init.lua'))

      assert(dotfiles, 'Could not find dotfiles')

      require('dotenv').command({fargs = {
        vim.fs.dirname(dotfiles) .. '/../.env',
      }})
    end,
  },
}

The last command could be simplified if I could just access load directly:

      require('dotenv').load(vim.fs.dirname(dotfiles) .. '/../.env')

Thanks!!

Conflict with project.nvim

First of all, thanks for developing this plugin.

I ran into an issue with this plugin when combined with project.nvim. Project.nvim uses the "BufEnter" event, which runs after the "BufReadPost" event, which is what dotenv.nvim currently uses. Because of this, dotenv.nvim is not able to know about a directory change that project.nvim performs with the "BufEnter" event.

I got around this by telling dotenv.nvim to not automatically load the .env file (which just disables the registering of the builtin autocmd) and instead defined my own autocmd but used the "BufEnter" event. This seems to allow dotenv.nvim to be aware of project.nvim's directory switching.

Because I have a workaround, I don't necessarily need the plugin to change. However, I wanted to bring this to your attention as others may encounter this.

Error detected while processing BufReadPost Autocommands for "*"

Error detected while processing BufReadPost Autocommands for "*":

Error executing lua callback: ...e/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/dotenv.nvim/lua/dotenv.lua:103: attempt to get length of field 'fargs' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
        ...e/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/dotenv.nvim/lua/dotenv.lua:103: in func
tion <...e/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/dotenv.nvim/lua/dotenv.lua:99>

This happens every time I open a file in nvim.

Any idea what could be the problem here?

• NVIM v0.8.1
• I am installed using Packer, with version:
• dotenv commit 813542a348473ae53d7e6e3b02a55095b29d9385 (grafted, HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
• Running OSX 12.6