Re: How do I install neovim plugins?

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le 19 septembre 2020 19:18:14 GMT-04:00, yasu@yasuaki.com a écrit :
>Hi Julien,
>
>Thank you for the pointer, here is what I did to make it work:
>
>    set runtimepath+=/home/yasu/.guix-profile/share/vim/vimfiles
>
>The plugin and neovim were installed as below:
>
>guix package --install=vim-airline
>guix package --install=nvim

Great! Glad I could help :)

>
>But this seems rather "imperative" and is not what I expected to do,
>after spending many weeks trying home-manager from NixOS :-)
>
>excerpt from .config/nixpkgs/home.nix
>...
>   programs.neovim = {
>     enable = true;
>     plugins = [
>       pkgs.vimPlugins.vim-airline
>       pkgs.vimPlugins.vim-nix
>     ];
>...
>
>In the Nix world, I think people were not seeing much point of:
>
>     nix-env -i
>
>which seems to be their equivalent of:
>
>    guix package --install=
>
>As an alternative, 'home-manger' seemed popular.
>
>Would you say the same for Guix as well?

I agree, this is very imperative, but since we don't have an equivalent of the home manager (except for my channel which is not very popular because I don't recommend it for everyday use), this the kind of thing we usually do.

Actually, the most popular in guix is rather to set some *PATH environment variable, sometimes even patching the software to honor them. But we don't have any for neovim.

The equivalent of your home.nix example would be:

(user-home
  neovim-home-type
  (neovim-confiquration
    (plugins (list neovim-airline neovim-nix))))

(Assuming we actually have these packages)

The guix home manager follows the spirit of functionnal management closer than the nix home manager, because itqmakes your entire home a symlink to a store path, whereas nix home only overwrites some files that can later be modified imperatively (by you or a software). That makes it harder to use and breaks many software, but is much more satisfying :)

>
>-Yasu
>
>
>
>On 19.09.2020 23:40, Julien Lepiller wrote:
>> If you install plugins in your profile, you can add:
>> 
>> set runpath+=/home/user/.guix-profile/share/nvim/site
>> 
>> In your .config/nvem/init.vim
>> 
>> I also have a guix-home-manager at
>> https://framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-home-manager but it's more
>> involved.
>> 
>> Le 19 septembre 2020 10:04:45 GMT-04:00, Yasuaki Kudo
>> <yasu@yasuaki.com> a écrit :
>> 
>>> I see some vim plugin packages for guix but I have no idea how I
>>> enable them in the neovim (nvim) that I installed in Guix.
>>> 
>>> In NixOS I just used "home manager" and modified some existing
>>> template I found to add more plugins.