Issue with using as Nixos Kakoune plugin

[bhougland18]

Hello,

I looked at your Nixos dotfiles, as well as nix packages for plugins available to use with Kakoune, and it seems like the code below should work. However, when I run "nixos-rebuild switch" it tells me that kak-ansi is an undefined variable. The kak-buffers plugin that I also listed works as expected.

Also, I am having trouble understanding what this plugin does by the description. I having been looking for a command-line tool that will take my kakoune syntax highlighting from the editor and turn it into ansi color escaping when I send the text to a repl. Is that what this plugin does? It looks like from the code that it does that for a selection (which would be perfect).

Sorry to keep asking you questions. It is tough to find people that share an overlapping interest in Nixos, Clojure, and Kakoune.

  {
    nixpkgs.overlays = [
      (self: super: {
        kakoune = super.wrapKakoune self.kakoune-unwrapped {
          configure = {
            plugins = with self.kakounePlugins; [
              parinfer-rust
              kak-ansi
              kak-buffers
            ];
          };
        };
      })
  ];

  environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.kakoune ];
}

[eraserhd]

kak-ansi is available on the nixpkgs master branch. I'm not sure if I did it long enough ago for it to be on a release. If not, you'll need to add it in an overlay.

This plugin does not export Kakoune's highlighting -- it imports ANSI highlighting. The :ansi-render command removes escape codes from a buffer and adds highlighting information. It's useful for commands like :make which capture output to a fifo buffer.

I'll make a small note in the README.