Avoid navigating in show_line_diagnostics window

Language Server Protocol (LSP)
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Currently I have an autocmd with CursorHold that calls lua vim.lsp.diagnostic.show_line_diagnostics(). However, since repeating “show_line_diagnostics()” will take me inside of the floating window, it seems that there is a lot of situations where my cursor will end up hijacked and go into the diagnostics floating window.

I have removed some scenarios where that would happen, like going to the next or previous diagnostic using :

map('n', '<leader>ln', '<cmd>lua vim.lsp.diagnostic.goto_next({enable_popup= false})<CR>')

But there are still various scenarios where it can happen. For example, having an error at the end of the line and pressing “l” will take me inside the popup.
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Is there any way to prevent navigation into the diagnostics floating window when using such an autocmd? Or perhaps a better way to get the same behavior as the current autocmd, but without the navigation troubles?

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I think I had the same issue in the past, and used this autocmd to solve the issue. Maybe it’ll work for you as well…

The focusable = false is the interesting part here.

vim.cmd("autocmd CursorHold <buffer> lua vim.lsp.diagnostic.show_line_diagnostics({ focusable = false })")
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Thanks a lot! That does seem to work. I didn’t see any mention of focusable in the show_line_diagnostics doc, just curious how you found out about it?

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I think I saw someone asking this same question on the neovim subreddit at some point and I just copied it from there haha. Happy to pass it on.

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I guess it’s my fault for not documenting it properly when I added it. It’s been fixed today though :smiley: . Basically it was an option for open_floating_preview() that could be used from show_line_diagnostics()

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