Home Manager Integration

For a permanent install, add timvim to your Home Manager configuration. The flake exposes two things you can use:

• packages.${system}.default — the wrapped Neovim package, ready to drop into home.packages.
• homeModules.default — a Home Manager module that installs timvim together with its companion tooling (formatters, language servers, Node.js for Copilot, and more).

Which should I use?

Add packages.${system}.default if you only want the editor. Import homeModules.default if you also want the bundled development tools on your PATH.

Add the flake input

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
    timvim.url = "github:timlinux/nix-vim";
  };
}

Standalone Home Manager (package only)

{
  outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, timvim, ... }: {
    homeConfigurations."yourname" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
      modules = [
        {
          home.packages = [ timvim.packages.x86_64-linux.default ];
        }
      ];
    };
  };
}

Using the Home Manager module

To pull in timvim plus its full toolchain, import the provided module:

{
  outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, timvim, ... }: {
    homeConfigurations."yourname" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
      modules = [
        timvim.homeModules.default
      ];
    };
  };
}

NixOS with the Home Manager module

When Home Manager runs as a NixOS module, reference the package through the current system:

{ inputs, pkgs, ... }:
{
  home-manager.users.yourname = {
    home.packages = [ inputs.timvim.packages.${pkgs.system}.default ];
  };
}

Rebuild to apply

After editing your configuration, run home-manager switch (or your usual nixos-rebuild switch) to make nvim point at timvim.

Once installed, continue to First Launch.