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| author | Daniel Gorin <jcpetruzza@gmail.com> | 2020-06-29 21:25:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Gorin <jcpetruzza@gmail.com> | 2020-11-01 14:35:49 +0000 |
| commit | 550389392a54a81e750aabb54b69a77c9e5d18af (patch) | |
| tree | eca9de59d139bb243092233590d4639960111408 /doc/builders | |
| parent | 0fb9276e51d2293f663180c233771bd38ecee932 (diff) | |
kakoune: rework plugin support
The previous implementation of plugin-support for the kakoune derivation
was based on generating, at build time, a `plugins.kak` file that would
source all .kak files in the list of plugins, and wrap the `kak` binary
in a script that would add some command-line arguments so that this
file gets loaded on start-up. The main problem with this approach
is that the plugins' code get executed *after* the user's configuration
file is loaded, so effectively one cannot automatically activate/configure
these plugins.
The idiomatic way of loading plugins is ensuring they end up installed
somwhere under `share/kak/autoload`. Because plugins are already being
packaged to have their code in `share/kak/autoload/plugins/<name-of-plugin>`,
we can obtain a derivation that includes the plugins simply by doing a
`symlinkJoin` of `kakoune-unwrapped` and all the requested plugins.
For this to work, we need to fix two issues:
1. By default, kakoune makes `share/kak/autoload` a symbolic link to
`share/kak/rc`, which contains all builtin definitions. We need
to patch this to put the symlink under `share/kak/autoload/rc`, so that
the join works.
2. By default kakoune expects the `autoload` directory to be in
`../share/kak/autoload` relative to the location of the `kak` binary.
We need to set the `KAKOUNE_RUNTIME` to point the symlinked
share/kak for this to work.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/builders')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/builders/packages/kakoune.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/builders/packages/kakoune.xml b/doc/builders/packages/kakoune.xml index 728d40dacc92..045dbd0a653b 100644 --- a/doc/builders/packages/kakoune.xml +++ b/doc/builders/packages/kakoune.xml @@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ <para> Kakoune can be built to autoload plugins: <programlisting>(kakoune.override { - configure = { - plugins = with pkgs.kakounePlugins; [ parinfer-rust ]; - }; + plugins = with pkgs.kakounePlugins; [ parinfer-rust ]; })</programlisting> </para> </section> |