Importing flake.homeModule in home-manager results in unconfigured neovim

[MATOO-Dev]

I've setup a basic config with some plugins, and I'm now trying to add it as a home-manager module to replace my current nixvim setup.

I added my config flake as nvim-config in my flake inputs, and added inputs.nvim-config.homeModule to my home-manager imports

This builds successfully, but running nvim results in a default, unconfigured neovim

I've also tried inputs.nvim-config.packages.x86_64-linux.nvim, in which case the build fails with The option '__ignoreNulls' does not exist

What is the correct way to include my config in home-manager?
Thanks!

[BirdeeHub]

did you enable it? Putting homeModule in your home manager imports would import the module but you also have to enable it. And if you already have an nvim installed home manager will yell at you. Here are the module options available

https://nixcats.org/nixCats_hm_options.html

The module inherits the packages from your flake and also allows you to modify them further.

Did you override luaPath in the module? If so it would be looking in the new location for the config which would be wrong.

as far as the other thing you tried:

This is a package not a module.

# no
imports = [
inputs.nvim-config.packages.x86_64-linux.nvim
];
# yes
home.packages = [
inputs.nvim-config.packages.x86_64-linux.nvim
];

So yeah, __ignoreNulls is not an option, its an attribute of a derivation that you are feeding into your modules list

[BirdeeHub]

Also if you could put further questions like this in discussions, I would appreciate it as then maybe other people will find it

Edit: thanks, I can move it apparently, who knew!

[MATOO-Dev]

did you enable it? Putting homeModule in your home manager imports would import the module but you also have to enable it.

The flake is copied from the template, so defaultPackageName = "nvim"

I added nvim.enable = true to my home-manager config, but that did not seem to have any effect

Did you override luaPath in the module? If so it would be looking in the new location for the config which would be wrong.

I didn't

Also if you could put further questions like this in discussions, I would appreciate it as then maybe other people will find it

Noted, thanks for the correction. There should be a button on the right to allow you to convert the issue to a discussion if you want.

EDIT:
I tried the other way of adding it to packages directly and that worked, ideally I'd still like to understand how to use it as a home-manager module though

[BirdeeHub]

You should be able to:

{ config, pkgs, lib, inputs }: {
  imports = [ inputs.yournvimflake.homeModule ];
  config = {
    nvim.enable = true;
    # nvim.packageNames = [ "nvim" ]; # <-- this should already be the default value if defaultPackageName is nvim
    # nvim.nixpkgs_version = inputs.nixpkgs; # <- optional
  };
}

assuming your defaultPackageName passed to mkHomeModules at the end of your template is "nvim"

I use it in my personal config in this manner and the tests also test module import so it should work if you are importing it correctly

[BirdeeHub]

There isnt a lot of info here for me to go on to provide more help

Noted, thanks for the correction. There should be a button on the right to allow you to convert the issue to a discussion if you want.

I didnt know about this thank you!

[MATOO-Dev]

Explicitly adding nvim.packagesNames = [ "nvim" ]; did the trick, despite already being the default.
Thanks for your help!

[BirdeeHub]

huh....

Weird.

Well, its a good idea to do anyway so that you can install any extra packages if you want like a notes specific one or to have your one with an unwrapped config for quick edits also installed to your profile.

But yeah I might have to look into that or just mark it as always required...

[BirdeeHub]

the tests seem to agree with you... When I stop setting that in the home manager test module it seems to not work...