@property for lua won't work

I'm trying to add a query to target key-value pairs in Lua, such as:

local test = {
  foo = "bar"
}

So, in ~/.config/nvim/after/queries/lua/textobjects.scm I have this:

;;extends
(field
  name: (identifier) @property.lhs
  value: (_) @property.inner) @property.outer

In my textobjects config I have it assigned like so:

			textobjects = {
				select = {
					enable = true,
					lookahead = true,
					keymaps = {
						-- ...
						["av"] = { query = "@property.outer", desc = "Outer property" }, 
						["iv"] = { query = "@property.inner", desc = "Value" }, 
						["lv"] = { query = "@property.lhs", desc = "Key" }, 
                                                -- ...
					},
				},
				-- ...
		})

I've checked the query with :EditQuery, I've tried :TSEditQueryUserAfter which points to the correct file. In theory, if I go civ at foo, I should be able to change "bar" to whatever. I've checked with :InspectTree, but nothing happens. :checkhealth nvim-treesitter looks all good. I've also tried changing the ;;extends line to pretty much every variation of 1 or 2 ;, with or without spaces, nothing seems to help. What am I missing?

Can you use main branch of this plugin? I think the config is older unsupported version.

I believe I already am. Just in case I added branch = "main", but nothing changed. Also, I have it as a dependency of the regular nvim-treesitter, like so:

return {
  "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter",
  branch = "master",
  build = ":TSUpdate",
  cmd = { "TSUpdate", "TSInstall", "TSLog", "TSUninstall" },
  event = { "BufReadPre", "BufNewFile" },
  dependencies = {
    "windwp/nvim-ts-autotag",
    {
      "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-context",
      opts = function()
        local tsc = require("treesitter-context")
        Snacks.toggle({
          name = "Treesitter Context",
          get = tsc.enabled,
          set = function(state)
            if state then
              tsc.enable()
            else
              tsc.disable()
            end
          end,
        }):map("<leader>ut")
        return { mode = "cursor", max_lines = 3 }
      end,
    },
    { "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjects", branch = "main" }, -- HERE
    "HiPhish/rainbow-delimiters.nvim",
  },
-- ...
}

I've also tried having it as its own file, with nvim-treesitter as a dependency instead, and that didn't help either.

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kiyoon commented on Apr 1, 2026

luiza177 commented on Apr 1, 2026

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