Is it possible to use neovide with the nixcats config?

[Damnjelly]

Since the config is stored in the nix store neovide does not see the config. My guess is that wrapRc = false would work, but I was wondering if there is a nicer way.

[BirdeeHub]

With neovide you can set the executable/command to run with neovide

Simply point your neovide install at the path or the name of the package that you wish to run within neovide

Works regardless of wrapRc.

You can install neovide with a simple wrapper script that launches it with the argument that sets this path/command

neovide --neovim-bin your_package_name

or

neovide = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "neovide" ''
  exec ${pkgs.neovide}/bin/neovide --neovim-bin ${yourpackage}/bin/${yourpackage.nixCats_packageName} "$@"
'';
# put that in your packages list instead of neovide

If you installed via module you wont already have the package available but you can grab the package from the config variable like shown at the end here

It will still look for the toml config file in the normal place, and you can use it as normal as you would without nix.

but you dont need that, nor will nixCats provision it

You can configure neovide in lua. inside lua you can do

if vim.g.neovide then
  -- your neovide config options
end

There might be a way to set where it looks for the toml one too idk, but if there is, then you can pass that in to your config and set it instead of letting it look in its normal path, up to you.

[Damnjelly]

Thanks for the detailed response, I got it working!

[BirdeeHub]

Just figured I'd come back to this thread to mention some new possibilities for ways to use neovide with nixCats introduced by the new hosting program changes

https://nixcats.org/nixCats_format.html#nixCats.flake.outputs.settings.hosts

packageDefinitions = {
  packagename = { pkgs, name, mkPlugin, ... }: {
    categories = { /* your categories you want to enable here */  };
    extra = { /* misc stuff you want to pass */ };
    settings = {
      hosts = {
        neovide = {
          # Will create a `packagename-neovide` in your path that launches the
          # package named `packagename` in this case.
          # Also allows you to specify categories in categoryDefinitions for your new neovide host!
          enable = true;
          path = {
            value = "${pkgs.neovide}/bin/neovide";
            args = [ "--add-flags" "--neovim-bin ${name}" ];
          };
        };
      };
    };
  };
};