[Nix-dev] weird garbage output inside nix-shell

[Samuel Leathers]

I use nix-shell --run zsh. I alias that to nshell.

Thanks,

Sam

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 08:07 Roni Choudhury <aichoudh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I’m using nix-shell to do some development. I have the environment set up
> so I can build my code, but I had a question about invoking packages not in
> the shell’s environment. For instance, in that shell, when I run vim, I
> get output like this:
>
> vim: àΠbü : x    #í : Error 224711464
> vim:  }ÿ : xépOö : Error 1320334120
>
> These two lines came from two different invocations - note how the output
> seems to be random.
>
> If I include vim in shell.nix, then I don’t see this problem. (I don’t
> want to include vim in shell.nix in this case, because I don’t think the
> choice of editor is critical to the build environment, etc.)
>
> My main question is: *what is causing this strange output?*
>
> My secondary question: *how do I invoke nix-shell in such a way as to
> instantiate the environment specified in shell.nix, plus a few “custom”
> packages (such as vim)?*
>
> I guess I should mention that my shell of choice is zsh. When I run
> nix-shell I get dropped into a bash shell. From there, if I invoke zsh
> I’m back where I want to be. Could that quirk have something to do with
> this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> roni
> ​
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