Debugging

In the last blog article I described a way how to debug SIGABRT crashes in neovim with the help of a nix shell. It helped me to find out the cause of the crashes in neovim 0.5.0 and an already existing issue in the github project, which already provided a solution. Unfortunately, since a few weeks, I experience crashes in neovim again. Most of the time when using telescope with the preview, neovim randomly crashes....

Since the introduction of the new lua api in neovim 0.5.0 there are plenty new vim plugins based on this api. While testing some of the new plugins, my neovim exited with a SIGSEGV and sometime with a SIGABRT in specific workflows. As these crashes are reproducible, it should be easy to debug the problem. However, we need a debug build of neovim and, since I’m using macOS, the stack trace of neovim....