theHamsta/nvim-semantic-tokens

Important Hint: Semantic Token Support Now Merged to Nightly Neovim: neovim/neovim#21100

Neovim 0.8.3 will officially supports SemanticTokens. See :h lsp-semantic_tokens!

nvim-semantic-tokens

This is a reference plugin to assist the development of neovim/neovim#15723

This plugin will use a local copy of neovim/neovim#15723 if Neovim is built without neovim/neovim#15723. Nightly Neovim is still required.

Setup

require("nvim-semantic-tokens").setup {
  preset = "default",
  -- highlighters is a list of modules following the interface of nvim-semantic-tokens.table-highlighter or 
  -- function with the signature: highlight_token(ctx, token, highlight) where 
  --        ctx (as defined in :h lsp-handler)
  --        token  (as defined in :h vim.lsp.semantic_tokens.on_full())
  --        highlight (a helper function that you can call (also multiple times) with the determined highlight group(s) as the only parameter)
  highlighters = { require 'nvim-semantic-tokens.table-highlighter'}
}

Preset configurations are loaded from ./lua/nvim-semantic-tokens/presets. The "default" preset will set the highlight groups described in ./doc/nvim-semantic-tokens.txt. Please map them to colors or highlight groups you like to actually see semantic highlights.

Use an autocommand for a filetype for which you have a language server set up that supports semantic tokens (e.g. clangd)

if &filetype == "cpp" || &filetype == "cuda" || &filetype == "c"
  autocmd BufEnter,TextChanged <buffer> lua require 'vim.lsp.buf'.semantic_tokens_full()
endif

or inside an on_attach call to a LSP client

local on_attach = function(client, bufnr)
    local caps = client.server_capabilities
    if caps.semanticTokensProvider and caps.semanticTokensProvider.full then
      local augroup = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("SemanticTokens", {})
      vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("TextChanged", {
        group = augroup,
        buffer = bufnr,
        callback = function()
          vim.lsp.buf.semantic_tokens_full()
        end,
      })
      -- fire it first time on load as well
      vim.lsp.buf.semantic_tokens_full()
    end
    --...
end

Language Servers with Semantic Token Support

• clangd
• rust-analyzer
• sumneko-lua
• pyright
• tsserver
• ...