[Nix-dev] Moving some of the NixOS setup to nixpkgs

[Andreas Herrmann]

I have actually been thinking about a possible use case of this for a while. I just never found the time to try and see if it's possible.

The idea would be to describe your vim configuration (plugins, their settings, and global config) with nix and then be able to transfer it to other systems through e.g. nix-copy-closure. Each plugin could be its own package, and have additional config options. And parts of your vim config could be individual packages that you can pick and swap around.

Switching vim configurations with profiles, or env-func could also be a quite useful feature. E.g. if you want to have a certain vim plugin for one code-base, and another one for another code-base, and those two plugins are incompatible...

Best,
Andreas


On Friday 03 October 2014 13:02:37 Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> On 10/03/2014 12:54 PM, Luca Bruno wrote:
> > I think it's pointless wrapVim for nixos and non-nixos. For non-nixos
> > you can have a ~/.vimrc, and for system-wide /etc/vimrc.
> 
> Yeah, the argument was something like that, I think...
> The difference is that config inside profile is more flexible. No really 
> strong reasons, but IMO useful enough to avoid removal from nixpkgs.
> 
> (E.g. not global, included in nix-copy-closure transfers, easy to switch 
> among multiple ones per-terminal.)
> 
> 
> Vladimir
> 
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