Neovim for Beginners — LSP Inlay Hints

Configure LSP inlay hints.

For certain programming languages, inlay hints make it a lot easier for us to code. In this short article, let’s configure LSP inlay hints for those languages that support this feature.

This article is part of the Neovim for Beginners series.

The Neovim configuration files are available in this repository.

Configuration

We are going to use the inlay-hints.nvim plugin. In the lua/plugins.lua file, we add the lines to install this plugin using packer.nvim.

Language Server Configuration

In the lua/config/lsp/init.lua file, we configure the settings for the sumneko_lua, gopls, and tsserver language servers.

LSP Configuration

In the lua/config/lsp/init.lua file, we add the code to attach to the language server in the on_attach method.

For Rust, we configure the inlay hints in the lua/config/lsp/installer.lua file.

Testing

Now inlay hints should work for those languages that support it.

Rust

Using rust-tools.nvim, we can use the commands RustEnableInlayHints and RustDisableInlayHints to enable or disable this feature.

Lua

Go

Alternatively, we can use the go.nvim plugin which also has the inlay hints feature.

Typescript

Other Plugins

Similar plugins that you can try

• lsp-inlayhints.nvim
• go.nvim for Go language

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