I’m quite new to NixOS and am currently running it inside a VM. I’ve been using Arch as my daily-driver for almost a year now.

How do i write a NixOS derivation to configure Doom Emacs for me?

I already have my init, config and packages.el files in my dotfiles private repo on Gitlab. Assuming I’ve already cloned these repos to my home directory, is it possible to create a Nix derivation for this purpose??

EDIT: I’ve setup my custom Emacs build, and the rest of the script automatically configures doom for me.

  • KindaABigDylEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Not an emacs user, but probably there’s an option for emacs that will allow you to embed your emacs config into your nix config.

    If you’d rather have a separate file, you can install files to /etc/ via the environment.etc."<file-name>".source = ./file/in/your/nix/repo or using home-manager with home."<file-name>".source = ./file/in/your/nix/repo

    I’m a “put it in the nix config” guy myself, and that’s how I set up neovim

    • ZeStigOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have my Emacs configs, managed by a dotfiles repo. I wanted to know how to set up Doom Emacs

      • KindaABigDylEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Sorry I didn’t know there was a difference. I thought Doom Emacs was a version of Emacs, not something that worked alongside the original. Like I said I’m a neovim user