Nix shell with lspsAndRuntimeDeps

[JaCoB1123]

Hi,

I recently switched from a plain nvim config to nixCats and it's awesome. 👍

I just wish I could open a nix shell with lspsAndRuntimeDeps available, without using nvims terminal. Has anyone done this or could anyone give me a hint how I could achieve that?

The dev shell example from the kickstart template allows me to use my custom nvim, but does not provide access to the lsp binaries:

devShells = {
  default = pkgs.mkShell {
    name = defaultPackageName;
    packages = [ defaultPackage ];
    inputsFrom = [ ];
    shellHook = ''
    '';
  };
};

[BirdeeHub]

You could factor out the list and provide it both places? Or just put them in there directly? Make a function that takes a pkgs and returns a list and call it both places or something. mydeps = pkgs: with pkgs; [ idk ]; and then call mydeps pkgs wherever you need them.

NixCats only manages the neovim install, it makes a drv with those things in its environment. Making shells is a separate thing but you can always factor stuff out in nix to reduce duplication if you want, it is a whole programming language after all. But nixCats will only provision for neovim and its subprocesses.