From 4ff5e8bf81becfa07ae75393c2395593abbf8ade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samyak Bardiya <mail@samyakbardiya.dev>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:30:25 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix(news): use $VIMRUNTIME for news.txt path

Use `vim.env.VIMRUNTIME` to resolve `news.txt` instead of
`nvim_get_runtime_file()`, which can return a plugin's
`news.txt` (e.g., rainbow-delimiters.nvim) instead of
Neovim's bundled one.
---
 lua/lazyvim/util/news.lua | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lua/lazyvim/util/news.lua b/lua/lazyvim/util/news.lua
index f473f3a3..43e45c45 100644
--- a/lua/lazyvim/util/news.lua
+++ b/lua/lazyvim/util/news.lua
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ function M.open(file, opts)
     end
     file = plugin.dir .. "/" .. file
   elseif opts.rtp then
-    file = vim.api.nvim_get_runtime_file(file, false)[1]
+    file = vim.fs.joinpath(vim.env.VIMRUNTIME, "doc", "news.txt")
   end
 
   if not file then