Re: How do I install neovim plugins?

[Yasuaki Kudo]

Well perhaps I will try your home manager and we can even improve it 😄

I want to spend some time learning Guix - I think highly 
composable/customizable software is what many organizations desire and is the 
area that is underserved - because many software vendors are not interested, 
half-interested with ulterior motives, or outright against it 😅

GNU Guix seems to address both philosophical and technological shortcomings of 
our society. 

> On Sep 20, 2020, at 08:41, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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.