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---
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title: User's Guide for Vim in Nixpkgs
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author: Marc Weber
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date: 2016-06-25
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---
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# User's Guide to Vim Plugins/Addons/Bundles/Scripts in Nixpkgs
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You'll get a vim(-your-suffix) in PATH also loading the plugins you want.
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Loading can be deferred; see examples.
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Vim packages, VAM (=vim-addon-manager) and Pathogen are supported to load
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packages.
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## Custom configuration
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Adding custom .vimrc lines can be done using the following code:
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```
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vim_configurable.customize {
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name = "vim-with-plugins";
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vimrcConfig.customRC = ''
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set hidden
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'';
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}
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```
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## Vim packages
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To store you plugins in Vim packages the following example can be used:
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```
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vim_configurable.customize {
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vimrcConfig.packages.myVimPackage = with pkgs.vimPlugins; {
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# loaded on launch
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start = [ youcompleteme fugitive ];
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# manually loadable by calling `:packadd $plugin-name`
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opt = [ phpCompletion elm-vim ];
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# To automatically load a plugin when opening a filetype, add vimrc lines like:
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# autocmd FileType php :packadd phpCompletion
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}
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};
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```
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## VAM
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### dependencies by Vim plugins
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VAM introduced .json files supporting dependencies without versioning
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assuming that "using latest version" is ok most of the time.
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### Example
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First create a vim-scripts file having one plugin name per line. Example:
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"tlib"
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{'name': 'vim-addon-sql'}
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{'filetype_regex': '\%(vim)$', 'names': ['reload', 'vim-dev-plugin']}
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Such vim-scripts file can be read by VAM as well like this:
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call vam#Scripts(expand('~/.vim-scripts'), {})
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Create a default.nix file:
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{ nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, compiler ? "ghc7102" }:
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nixpkgs.vim_configurable.customize { name = "vim"; vimrcConfig.vam.pluginDictionaries = [ "vim-addon-vim2nix" ]; }
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Create a generate.vim file:
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ActivateAddons vim-addon-vim2nix
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let vim_scripts = "vim-scripts"
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call nix#ExportPluginsForNix({
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\ 'path_to_nixpkgs': eval('{"'.substitute(substitute(substitute($NIX_PATH, ':', ',', 'g'), '=',':', 'g'), '\([:,]\)', '"\1"',"g").'"}')["nixpkgs"],
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\ 'cache_file': '/tmp/vim2nix-cache',
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\ 'try_catch': 0,
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\ 'plugin_dictionaries': ["vim-addon-manager"]+map(readfile(vim_scripts), 'eval(v:val)')
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\ })
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Then run
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nix-shell -p vimUtils.vim_with_vim2nix --command "vim -c 'source generate.vim'"
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You should get a Vim buffer with the nix derivations (output1) and vam.pluginDictionaries (output2).
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You can add your vim to your system's configuration file like this and start it by "vim-my":
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my-vim =
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let plugins = let inherit (vimUtils) buildVimPluginFrom2Nix; in {
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copy paste output1 here
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}; in vim_configurable.customize {
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name = "vim-my";
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vimrcConfig.vam.knownPlugins = plugins; # optional
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vimrcConfig.vam.pluginDictionaries = [
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copy paste output2 here
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];
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# Pathogen would be
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# vimrcConfig.pathogen.knownPlugins = plugins; # plugins
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# vimrcConfig.pathogen.pluginNames = ["tlib"];
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};
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Sample output1:
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"reload" = buildVimPluginFrom2Nix { # created by nix#NixDerivation
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name = "reload";
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src = fetchgit {
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url = "git://github.com/xolox/vim-reload";
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rev = "0a601a668727f5b675cb1ddc19f6861f3f7ab9e1";
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sha256 = "0vb832l9yxj919f5hfg6qj6bn9ni57gnjd3bj7zpq7d4iv2s4wdh";
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};
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dependencies = ["nim-misc"];
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};
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[...]
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Sample output2:
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[
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''vim-addon-manager''
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''tlib''
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{ "name" = ''vim-addon-sql''; }
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{ "filetype_regex" = ''\%(vim)$$''; "names" = [ ''reload'' ''vim-dev-plugin'' ]; }
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]
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## Important repositories
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- [vim-pi](https://bitbucket.org/vimcommunity/vim-pi) is a plugin repository
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from VAM plugin manager meant to be used by others as well used by
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- [vim2nix](http://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-vim2nix) which generates the
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.nix code
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