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lilyball / nix-env.fish

Nix environment setup for the fish shell
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Package in `nixpkgs` #12

Closed lovesegfault closed 1 year ago

lovesegfault commented 1 year ago

It'd be great if this was available under nixpkgs#fishPlugins, given the use-case.

lilyball commented 1 year ago

Interesting idea. I suppose that way you could install fish using wrapFish with the plugin, though I haven't looked at how that actually sets things up. Personally, I ended up switching to using something like

fish.override {
  fishEnvPreInit = source: source "${nix}/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh";
}

which better replicates the NixOS initialization of fish, albeit with the downside that you have to compile fish now instead of getting it from the binary cache. And then when I adopted nix-darwin I just let it manage fish for me the way NixOS does.

All that to say, I don't actually use nix-env.fish myself anymore, nor am I in a position to test out alternative ways to install it. But the idea makes sense.

To that end, I would encourage you to submit a PR to nixpkgs. There's nothing to do in this repo (except for possibly updating the README if it gets added to nixpkgs), so I'm going to close this issue. Feel free to open a PR for a README change if it gets added to nixpkgs. Thank you for the suggestion!