gopls configuration

[mway]

I'm trying to configure gopls similar to how I have it configured in nvim, namely:

{
  goimports   = true,
  gofumpt     = true,
  staticcheck = true,
  analyses = {
    unusedparams = true,
    unreachable  = true,
  },
}

But despite adding the following to languages.toml:

[[language]]
name = "go"
config = { goimports = true, gofumpt = true, staticcheck = true, analyses = { unusedparams = true, unreachable = true } }

it seems that the default behavior of gopls is unchanged. Specifically, what I want to do is:

• run goimports on save
• run gofumpt on save
• use gopls analyzers

The latter works out of the box, which is awesome. The former two, however, I personally consider to be baseline functionality. I don't want to use the %,:pipe goimports strategy because (1) LSP can already handle this and (2) it crashes in some scenarios, such as when I'm trying to do it on a project that uses Bazel.

Any help would be appreciated, or if there's a better way to do it, that'd be great too!

Happy to provide any other info.

[joetrimble]

Try passing in something like the following. Check out the example on this page. If it works just make sure you are prefixing it and you should be able to find the prefixes (formatting, ui., etc) on the settings page.

[[language]] name = "go" config = { "formatting.gofumpt" = true, "ui.diagnostic.staticcheck" = true }

[btvoidx]

Hey! I am having the same issue and can not get staticcheck to work. I feel like I've tried everything. Does it work for you? If so, can you share your config?

[iztsv]

Hello! I have the same issue - cannot enable goimports during :w

[yakomisar]

This works for me, please try
[[language]]
name = "go"
formatter = { command = "goimports" }
config = { "formatting.gofumpt" = true }

But the main problem here - if you would like to use golines, then you need to choose what is more important for you, because you cannot call formatter twice
[[language]]
name = "go"
formatter = { command = "golines" } or this line formatter = { command = "goimports" }
config = { "formatting.gofumpt" = true }

[miranquil]

@yakomisar Hey, does this work till now? I've tried your configs and helix returns this:

Bad language config: unknown field `config`, expected one of `name`, `language-id`, `scope`, `file-types`, `shebangs`, `roots`, `comment-token`, `text-width`, `soft-wrap`, `auto-format`, `formatter`, `diagnostic-severity`, `grammar`, `injection-regex`, `language-servers`, `indent`, `debugger`, `auto-pairs`, `rulers`, `workspace-lsp-roots`
in `language`

And my helix version is helix 23.10 (f6021dd0)

[yakomisar]

No it does not

[jgardona]

Hey! I am having the same issue and can not get staticcheck to work. I feel like I've tried everything. Does it work for you? If so, can you share your config?

here reloading helix config after changing languages.toml triggers an error that says config is not a key and doesnt exists

[karan-savla-deltatre]

Hi,
I have a working config with helix 23.10.

[language-server.gopls]
command = "gopls"
config = { "gofumpt" = true, "local" = "goimports", "semanticTokens" = true, "staticcheck" = true, "verboseOutput" = true, "analyses" = { "fieldalignment" = true, "nilness" = true, unusedparams = true, unusedwrite = true, useany = true }, usePlaceholders = true, completeUnimported = true, hints = { "assignVariableType" = true, "compositeLiteralFields" = true, "compositeLiteralTypes" = true, "constantValues" = true, "functionTypeParameters" = true, "parameterNames" = true, "rangeVariableTypes" = true } }

[[language]]
name = "go"
roots = ["go.work", "go.mod"]
auto-format = true
comment-token = "//"
language-servers = [ "gopls"]

Hope it helps

[fpauser]

I have no formatter with this config:

$ hx --health go
Configured language servers:
  ✓ gopls: /home/fpauser/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.23.0/bin/gopls
Configured debug adapter: dlv
Binary for debug adapter: /home/fpauser/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.23.0/bin/dlv
Configured formatter: None
Highlight queries: ✓
Textobject queries: ✓
Indent queries: ✓

Helix version:

$ hx --version
helix 24.7 (079f5442)

[HoangNguyen689]

me too, can't get the formatter worked.

[BrownNPC]

yeah the formatter isnt there

[OldManFroggy]

try the following in your languages file languages.toml in the .config/helix folder/directory

[[language]]
name = "go"
roots = ["go.work", "go.mod"]
auto-format = true
formatter = ["gofmt"]
comment-token = "//"
language-servers = [ "gopls", "golangci-lint-lsp" ]

[language-server.golangci-lint-lsp]
command = "golangci-lint-langserver"

[language-server.golangci-lint-lsp.config]
command = ["golangci-lint", "run", "--out-format", "json", "--issues-exit-code=1"]

and you should get

Configured language servers:
  ✓ gopls: /home/oldmanfroggy/go/bin/gopls
  ✓ golangci-lint-langserver: /home/oldmanfroggy/go/bin/golangci-lint-langserver
Configured debug adapter: dlv
Binary for debug adapter: /home/oldmanfroggy/go/bin/dlv
Configured formatter: gofmt
Binary for formatter: /usr/local/go/bin/gofmt
Tree-sitter parser: ✓
Highlight queries: ✓
Textobject queries: ✓
Indent queries: ✓

for static check stuff just change formatter to gofumpt and add your config options for it; I do not use this so is not in my config.

yeah, I was late to the party... but the above should solve issues (or at least does for me on Ubnuntu base, and snap version of helix on the edge ;) )

[vfaberd]

Leaving it here in case someone else is also looking for that.

I wanted Helix to add missing import on save and put local imports in a separate group from third-party packages.

All I had to do is to add this to my ~/.config/helix/languages.toml

[[language]]
name = "go"
formatter = { command = "goimports", args = ["-local", "mydomain.com"] }

[bbrodriges]

Hey, has someone being able to enable staticcheck in gopls config on helix 25.01.1 (e7ac2fc) ? I have tried every possible variation but still no success :(