Neovim APIs

There are a variety of APIs available for scripting Neovim using Lua.

• vim.split or vim.gsplit
• vim.trim
• vim.api.nvim_*
• Built in functions are available as vim.fn.*
• See :help lua-stdlib for more details.
• Lua APIs

String Functions

• join
• stridx
• string.* from Lua
• strlen
• strpart
• strridx
• submatch
• substitute
• vim.split or vim.gsplit
• vim.stricmp
• vim.trim

Directory Functions

• delete
• filereadable
• filewritable
• finddir
• findfile
• fnameescape
• fnamemodify
• getcwd
• getfperm
• getfsize
• getftime
• getftype
• isdirectory
• mkdir
• nvim_set_current_dir
• readdir
• readfile
• rename
• resolve
• simplify

Evaluation/Execution Functions

• luaeval
• system
• systemlist
• vim.api.nvim_call_function
• vim.api.nvim_command