Setting language in init.lua

[uyha]

I'm trying to migrate from init.vim to init.lua and I'm stuck at setting the language (locale). In init.vim, I can do lan en_US.utf8 but I couldn't find a way to do the same thing in init.lua. Could someone give me a pointer on how to do this?

[fsouza]

You can use the function vim.cmd to run commands, so for language you could do:

vim.cmd('lan en_US.utf-8')

(on single arg function-calls, parenthesis are optional, so you could also do vim.cmd 'lan en_US.utf-8' or vim.cmd'lan en_US.utf-8' if that's a style you prefer)

[uyha]

Thank you for the answer. I have one further question. This is basically calling vim script in Lua, is there a way to to this using purely Lua? Or currently, the Lua API in Neovim doesn't support it?

[fsouza]

Yeah, that command isn't currently available in the API as far as I know.