How do you manage very long init.lua configs and plugin lists?

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I haven’t even used Nvim that much and spent lots of time configuring it first, and now I’ve ended up with an init.lua of >700 lines and a plugins file >600 lines. They’re both very disorganized, how do you guys handle your files? In CSS I split up files into regions using comments and search for the region name, but it looks like there aren’t standards for making regions like that in code.

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You can still use comments and regions, 700 lines is nothing :slight_smile:

My init.lua is few lines long, but whole nvim directory has A LOT of files. Just do what you are comfortable with.

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You can:

  1. create a ‘lua’ directory next to your init.lua.
  2. Split your init.lua code into separate files (modules).
  3. require(‘file_name’) in your init. (file_name without lua extension).

To understand more, a quick read about lua (and lua modules) is not hard to reason about. I’m on mobile, so I can’t add references, sorry. But they are not hard to find.