siph

Building a standalone nixvim configuration

A standalone configuration is one that exists in its own project/repository. This means that you can externalize your entire neovim configuration, including flake inputs, nixpkgs version, etc...

This decoupling of neovim and NixOS configurations has multiple advantages including mixing stable/unstable nixpkgs and the ability to run your neovim configuration outside of your NixOS configuration. You can even run it outside of NixOS all together.

edolstra

This document contains some ideas for additions to the Nix language.

Motivation

The Nix package manager, Nixpkgs and NixOS currently have several problems:

• Poor discoverability of package options. Package functions have function arguments like enableFoo, but there is no way for the Nix UI to discover them, let alone to provide programmatic ways to