nvf/docs/manual/configuring/custom-plugins/configuring.md

# Configuring {#sec-configuring-plugins}

Just making the plugin to your Neovim configuration available might not always
be enough. In that case, you can write custom lua config using either
`config.vim.extraPlugins` (which has the `setup` field) or
`config.vim.luaConfigRC`. The first option uses an attribute set, which maps DAG
section names to a custom type, which has the fields `package`, `after`,
`setup`. They allow you to set the package of the plugin, the sections its setup
code should be after (note that the `extraPlugins` option has its own DAG
scope), and the its setup code respectively. For example:

```nix
config.vim.extraPlugins = with pkgs.vimPlugins; {
  aerial = {
    package = aerial-nvim;
    setup = "require('aerial').setup {}";
  };

  harpoon = {
    package = harpoon;
    setup = "require('harpoon').setup {}";
    after = ["aerial"]; # place harpoon configuration after aerial
  };
}
```

The second option also uses an attribute set, but this one is resolved as a DAG
directly. The attribute names denote the section names, and the values lua code.
For example:

```nix
{
  # this will create an "aquarium" section in your init.lua with the contents of your custom config
  # which will be *appended* to the rest of your configuration, inside your init.vim
  config.vim.luaConfigRC.aquarium = "vim.cmd('colorscheme aquiarum')";
}
```

:::{.note}
If your configuration needs to be put in a specific place in the config, you
can use functions from `inputs.nvf.lib.nvim.dag` to order it. Refer to
https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/modules/lib/dag.nix
to find out more about the DAG system.
:::

If you successfully made your plugin work, please feel free to create a PR to
add it to **nvf** or open an issue with your findings so that we can make it
available for everyone easily.