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Recent projects list number limit not working.

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start in lua/dashboard/theme/hyper.lua at line 115 and reproduce the issue by setting the recent-project limit, restarting Neovim, and comparing the displayed count with the configured value. Trace the recent-project list handling there and verify that the dashboard displays exactly the configured number.

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Description

In the hyper.lua file (lua/dashboard/theme), you can set the limit of recent projects displayed, but when run, the dashboard always displays 1 more than the limit.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to lua/dashboard/theme'/hyper.lua, line 115, set it to any number (and be mindful of it.)
  2. Exit out of nvim
  3. Restart nvim, you will see 1 more than the limit you expect

After setting the limit to a number like, say 3, you expect the dashboard to display only 3 recent projects, but rather it will display 4.

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