[PLUGIN REQUEST] improved-search.nvim about nixvim

[GaetanLepage]

Made a PR to nixpkgs: NixOS/nixpkgs#299697

[PowerUser64]

Woah cool, how'd you do that? I see that pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/generated.nix is modified in the PR, but I'm guessing that was generated from pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/vim-plugin-names? What did you do to generate it?

[GaetanLepage]

The first step is to add the plugin to vim-plugin-names.
This can be done by running:

nix-shell -p vimPluginsUpdater --run 'vim-plugins-updater add OWNER/PLUGIN_REPO'

Then, the generated.nix file has to be populated with the new plugin.
Theoretically, you should do it by running the script without argument.

nix-shell -p vimPluginsUpdater --run 'vim-plugins-updater'

This will update the entire generated.nix file according to the vim-plugin-names list.
In practice, I prefer manually writing the snippet corresponding to my plugin in generated.nix.
Indeed, running the update script updates all the plugins, which requires a github token and a lot of time (~15min) to run.
Also, it is better for PRs that aim at adding a new plugin to do just that, without the risk of introducing a regression caused by a plugin update.

Resources: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#adding-new-plugins-to-nixpkgs

[PowerUser64]

Woah, cool! Thanks for explanation!