[The harpoon plugin](https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/harpoon/tree/harpoon2) allows you to pin files in a picker, which persists across Neovim restarts.

[wd60622]

The harpoon plugin allows you to pin files in a picker, which persists across Neovim restarts.

I've noticed that after a restart, opening octo buffers through harpoon - or even just with :edit octo://... some syntax highlighting is missing, e.g., the diff bar and the assignees aren't coloured.

If I open the Octo picker with the partially coloured PR open and close it again, everything is coloured correctly.
So, I assume opening Octo - not just loading it via Lazy - triggers some additional functionality that I'm not calling when opening an Octo PR without going through Octo itself.

Does anyone have experience using octo with harpoon or have some pointers how I could address this?

Originally posted by @paulhdk in #649

[wd60622]

Don't think this is limited to harpoon.

using :e <octo-buffer-uri> from fresh start has the same issue

For instance, octo://pwntester/octo.nvim/issue/771

[paulhdk]

@wd60622 in #649:

I experience this as well. I am thinking the highlight groups arent initialized or something.
Have you played around with it more and discovered anything?

I haven't. But I want to give it another go when I have more time. This could make a nice first contribution from my side, I hope!

[wd60622]

It'd be a great contribution, indeed!
Well toy around with it a bit. If you do have any information, comment it here in this thread. And it will get solved eventually 😄

[GuillaumeLagrange]

Are you guys lazy loading Octo in any way ?

[paulhdk]

Are you guys lazy loading Octo in any way ?

Yes. I have lazy = true and load Octo through the mappings I've set.

[GuillaumeLagrange]

Do you reproduce the issue without lazy loading ?

Could be due to octo not being properly loaded in when doing simple :e path/to/octo/buffer since the "normal" way of doing so includes a lazy load trigger

[wd60622]

I have lazy loading as well. But did try without which still had the same effect