lambdadog / nix-tools.el

Elisp toolkit for working with nix in emacs

Nix Tools

Your nix pocket-knife in emacs.

A small suite of emacs packages that make working with nix in emacs trivial, from requiring files from nix derivations inline in elisp to using nix shells (implementation in-progress).

Modules

nix-eval

Uses a nix-repl subprocess to run arbitrary nix commands. Useful for quickly querying nix information. Nixpkgs is not loaded in this repl, and if you want to use it you're forced to either let-bind it or just inline (import <nixpkgs> {}) into your nix expression.

nix-require

An macro for requiring nix derivations from your elisp code. Currently fairly rudimentary. Uses nix-eval to ensure that the expression is a derivation, etc.