Neovim Nightly on NixOS with Home-Manager and Plugins from Git

1 · Felix Breuer · May 19, 2021, 10 a.m.
Summary
I recently switched to NixOS with Home-Manager and wanted to try out Neovim Nightly aka Neovim 5.0. What is different on my setup? I will show you how to ditch all Plugin-Managers out there and use one Nix function to fetch all Neovim plugins from git. It will also keep them up-to-date everytime you rebuild your system. I assume you already have Home-Manager installed on your system. Install Neovim Nightly: nixpkgs.overlays = [ (import (builtins.fetchTarball { url = https://github.com/nix-...