Nix Chad

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An opinionated MacOS setup focused on software development.

Features

Firefox

discoverable key mappings

After pressing ? key a window enumerating all contextual key mappings appears.

Neovim

programming/configuration languages support

language	actions	completion	diagnostics	formatting	highlighting
bash	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑
dhall	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑
docker	☒	☒	☑	☒	☑
GitHub Actions workflow	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑
html	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑
java	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑
json	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑
javascript	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑
lua	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑
markdown	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑
nix	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑
purescript	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑
python	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑
typescript	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑
yaml	☑	☒	☑	☑	☑

discoverable key mappings

After pressing \ key a window enumerating all key mappings appears. The same windows shows when user starts but does not finish a key sequence which has some action assigned to it.

Prerequisites

• Nix 2.4+

Configuration

Initializing from a template

Run from a directory of your choice:

nix flake init --template github:mstream/nix-chad/main#default

Tweaking

Update any config entries to your liking like in this example.

Applying

After any change to configuration, run from the directory where flake.nix file resides:

nix run .#switch

Updating

To stay up to date witch changes to Nix Chad, run periodically:

nix flake update