fish
and zsh
support for the nix shell
and nix-shell
environments of the Nix package manager.
Features:
- When entering a
nix shell
ornix-shell
environment, the shell stays the same. - Inside those environments, your prompt prints the loaded packages to the right.
- Alternatively, print that information by executing:
nix-shell-info
nix-shell --command
or the like still execute insidebash
, such that scripts don't break.
any-nix-shell can currently be installed from the official nixos-unstable
channel
(Link 1, Link 2).
If you don't know how to do that, you can alternatively execute
nix-env -i any-nix-shell -f https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/master.tar.gz
which installs any-nix-shell
into your user environment.
In the following we describe how to enable the any-nix-shell
plugin
for your user.
This differs slightly between fish
and zsh
.
Add the following to your ~/.config/fish/config.fish. Create it if it doesn't exist.
any-nix-shell fish --info-right | source
Add the following to your ~/.zshrc. Create it if it doesn't exist.
any-nix-shell zsh --info-right | source /dev/stdin
Alternatively the any-nix-shell
plugin can be enabled system-wide.
This enables it for every user.
To do so, add the following to your configuration (/etc/nixos/configuration.nix).
programs.fish.enable = true;
programs.fish.promptInit = ''
any-nix-shell fish --info-right | source
'';
programs.zsh.enable = true;
programs.zsh.promptInit = ''
any-nix-shell zsh --info-right | source /dev/stdin
'';
programs.zsh.enable = true;
programs.zsh.initExtra = ''
any-nix-shell zsh --info-right | source /dev/stdin
'';
The any-nix-shell
command (which is used for enabling the plugin in a specific shell) optionally takes any of the following flags:
Flag | Description |
---|---|
--info-right |
While in a nix shell or nix-shell environment, display information about the loaded packages at the right. |