What do the various icons mean exactly in the Lazy UI?

[alexfu]

This may be a 2 part question but the main one I have is, what do the icons in the Lazy UI mean?

Whenever I open neovim with an empty buffer, it always shows most of my plugins as loaded (above screenshot). This seems a little suspicious if the plugins are meant to be lazily loaded (?). For example, I have this xcodebuild.nvim plugin for iOS dev and it's listed as loaded when launching neovim with an empty buffer so it makes me wonder why it's loaded if it's not needed. Same with other plugins like the typescript-tools.nvim; it shows as loaded when opening a plain text file.

So I wonder if I'm not fully understanding what is meant by Loaded vs Not Loaded and the icons that go with it.

[GalacSpace]

(I am a beginner so I could be very wrong ...)

My first impression is that this list is sorted alphabetically, therefore it shouldn't reflect the succession of events in the loading of your packages.

A more sensible way to understand what exactly happened would be the use of the built-in profiler, by using uppercase P in the Lazy window.

The profiler can even output more informations with these options:

require("lazy").setup({
  -- your initial config here ...
  profiling = {
    -- Enables extra stats on the debug tab related to the loader cache.
    -- Additionally gathers stats about all package.loaders
    loader = false,
    -- Track each new require in the Lazy profiling tab
    require = false,
  },
})

My guess is that this package is loaded as a dependency of another package, or that a small misconfiguration could be at the root of your problems.

As for the signification of each icon, does this help ?
https://lazy.folke.io/configuration

Happy coding !

[alexfu]

Oh, I had not seen this...

{
  ui = {
    icons = {
      cmd = "⌘",
      config = "🛠",
      event = "📅",
      ft = "📂",
      init = "⚙",
      keys = "🗝",
      plugin = "🔌",
      runtime = "💻",
      require = "🌙",
      source = "📄",
      start = "🚀",
      task = "📌",
      lazy = "💤 ",
    },
  },
}

I can kind of guess what some of these are based off the names but others I just have no clue on, like task or keys...

However, for my own local setup, this icon map is helpful and does make more sense, thanks!

[GalacSpace]

Icons like keys, ft and event could represent a condition to load a plugin, for example:

• keys load this extension when a specific 🗝 keystroke is pressed
• ft only load an extension (like a language server) if you detect a certain 📂 file (C or lua ...)
• event load the plugin when 📅 saving or 📅 exiting the file (like a code formatter)

As for 📌 tasks, my only resource would be this image right here:

I think what happens is that after every update, the plugin needs to either rebuild itself or 📌 execute certain commands, it's the case for treesitter with {"nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter", build = :TSUpdate} for example

[realguse]

Here you have a short explanation of the icons:
: plugin loaded at the start

: plugin required

: plugin loaded by another plugin

: if the plugin is in init.lua (not sure)

: loaded on an event (eg BufReadPre and VeryLazy)

: plugin loaded on a keymap

:plugin loaded on a command

cmd: loaded on a command (eg :ConformInfo)
event: loaded on an event
ft: loaded on when entering a file with a certain filetype
keys: loaded on a keymap defined in the keys spec