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# Pure Lua Configuration {#sec-pure-lua-config}
We recognize that you might not always want to configure your setup purely in
Nix, sometimes doing things in Lua is simply the "superior" option. In such a
case you might want to configure your Neovim instance using Lua, and nothing but
Lua. It is also possible to mix Lua and Nix configurations.
Pure Lua or hybrid Lua/Nix configurations can be achieved in two different ways.
_Purely_, by modifying Neovim's runtime directory or _impurely_ by placing Lua
configuration in a directory found in `$HOME`. For your convenience, this
section will document both methods as they can be used.
## Pure Runtime Directory {#sec-pure-nvf-runtime}
As of 0.6, nvf allows you to modify Neovim's runtime path to suit your needs.
One of the ways the new runtime option is to add a configuration **located
relative to your `flake.nix`**, which must be version controlled in pure flakes
manner.
```nix
{
# Let us assume we are in the repository root, i.e., the same directory as the
# flake.nix. For the sake of the argument, we will assume that the Neovim lua
# configuration is in a nvim/ directory relative to flake.nix.
vim = {
additionalRuntimeDirectories = [
# This will be added to Neovim's runtime paths. Conceptually, this behaves
# very similarly to ~/.config/nvim but you may not place a top-level
# init.lua to be able to require it directly.
./nvim
];
};
}
```
This will add the `nvim` directory, or rather, the _store path_ that will be
realised after your flake gets copied to the Nix store, to Neovim's runtime
directory. You may now create a `lua/myconfig` directory within this nvim
directory, and call it with [](#opt-vim.luaConfigRC).
```nix
{pkgs, ...}: {
vim = {
additionalRuntimeDirectories = [
# You can list more than one file here.
./nvim-custom-1
# To make sure list items are ordered, use lib.mkBefore or lib.mkAfter
# Simply placing list items in a given order will **not** ensure that
# this list will be deterministic.
./nvim-custom-2
];
startPlugins = [pkgs.vimPlugins.gitsigns];
# Neovim supports in-line syntax highlighting for multi-line strings.
# Simply place the filetype in a /* comment */ before the line.
luaConfigRC.myconfig = /* lua */ ''
-- Call the Lua module from ./nvim/lua/myconfig
require("myconfig")
-- Any additional Lua configuration that you might want *after* your own
-- configuration. For example, a plugin setup call.
require('gitsigns').setup({})
'';
};
}
```
## Impure Absolute Directory {#sec-impure-absolute-dir}
[Neovim 0.9]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/22128
As of [Neovim 0.9], {var}`$NVIM_APPNAME` is a variable expected by Neovim to
decide on the configuration directory. nvf sets this variable as `"nvf"`,
meaning `~/.config/nvf` will be regarded as _the_ configuration directory by
Neovim, similar to how `~/.config/nvim` behaves in regular installations. This
allows some degree of Lua configuration, backed by our low-level wrapper
[mnw](https://github.com/Gerg-L/mnw). Creating a `lua/` directory located in
`$NVIM_APPNAME` ("nvf" by default) and placing your configuration in, e.g.,
`~/.config/nvf/lua/myconfig` will allow you to `require` it as a part of the Lua
module system through nvf's module system.
Let's assume your `~/.config/nvf/lua/myconfig/init.lua` consists of the
following:
```lua
-- init.lua
vim.keymap.set("n", " ", "<Nop>", { silent = true, remap = false })
vim.g.mapleader = " "
```
The following Nix configuration via [](#opt-vim.luaConfigRC) will allow loading
this
```nix
{
# The attribute name "myconfig-dir" here is arbitrary. It is required to be
# a *named* attribute by the DAG system, but the name is entirely up to you.
vim.luaConfigRC.myconfig-dir = ''
require("myconfig")
-- Any additional Lua
'';
}
```
[DAG system]: https://notashelf.github.io/nvf/index.xhtml#ch-using-dags
After you load your custom configuration, you may use an `init.lua` located in
your custom configuration directory to configure Neovim exactly as you would
without a wrapper like nvf. If you want to place your `require` call in a
specific position (i.e., before or after options you set in nvf) the
[DAG system] will let you place your configuration in a location of your
choosing.
[top-level DAG system]: https://notashelf.github.io/nvf/index.xhtml#ch-vim-luaconfigrc