Using ~/.config/nvim/after/plugin For Neovim Mod Files

I'm experimenting with putting lua scripts to modify Neovim in:

~/.config/nvim/after/plugin

Any .lua files in that directory get loaded as one of the last parts of pulling things into the runtime. So, pretty much everything else should be loaded.

My thinking is to make it easier to break out parts of my config into the individual files and to make it easier to add little scripts to mod behavior.

For example, putting this script in the directory configures Neovim to print "File saved!" every time a file is written

~/.config/nvim/after/plugin/example.lua

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("BufWritePost", {
  group = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("EaxmpleFileSaveMessage", { clear = true }),
  callback = function() 
    print("File saved!")
  end,
})

That's not particullarly useful, but it proves the point that autocmds can be setup from the directory.

Postscript

So far. So good. I've created a half dozen files and everything is working as expected.

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References

after-directory Neovim Documentation

The subsection of the runtimepath docs that talks about how the after directories get loaded. Scoll up a bit to get a better idea of the entire process