How does cond work, exactly?

[itsdeadguy]

I've been going through discussions and a number of issues where the reply is always "that's not how cond works" or something along those lines.

In the interest of not having my coding plugins load during my non coding moments with nvim (i write a ton of prose and emails and other such) i've been trying to set certain plugins to load on filetype.

I've tried using ft, but as per the docs, i can't seem to pass a list to it so that was out of the question.
Then i tried writing a function that returns true if the value of vim.api.nvim_buf_get_option(0, 'filetype') matched one of the values on my list and passing that to cond.

I'll be the first to admit my code is all kinds of janky, but even that seems like it should have worked, but it didn't.

And that brings me to the title of my question. Am i missing something here? Am i going about this the right way or is there a better one?

[folke]

You can pass a list to ft. The docs clearly mention you can pass an array of strings.

Cond is evaluated at the time a plugin is loaded. Loaded because lazy is false, or because one of the lazy handlers kicked in. When the condition returns false at that point, the plugin is not loaded.

[itsdeadguy]

You can pass a list to ft. The docs clearly mention you can pass an array of strings.

i've tried with ft = ['html', 'css', 'lua', 'rust'] but as it turns out that is not the correct syntax. I don't know why i thought it was, guess my brain was on autopilot...

Cond is evaluated at the time a plugin is loaded. Loaded because lazy is false, or because one of the lazy handlers kicked in. When the condition returns false at that point, the plugin is not loaded.

Thank you, i find this clearer than what is on the readme.