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nil: Language server for Nix Expression Language
🚧 *This project is under development, but be happy to try it out!*
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## Features
- [x] Goto definition. `textDocument/definition`
- [x] References to parameters, `let` and `rec {}` bindings.
- [x] Relative paths.
- [x] Find references. `textDocument/reference`
- [x] Parameters, `let` and `rec {}` bindings.
- [x] With expression.
- [x] Completion. `textDocument/completion`
- [x] Builtin names.
- [x] Local bindings and rec-attrset fields.
- [x] Keywords.
- [ ] Attrset fields.
- [x] Diagnostics. `textDocument/publishDiagnostics`
- Syntax errors.
- Incomplete syntax errors are currently suppressed to avoid noisy outputs during typing.
- [x] Hard semantic errors reported as parse errors by Nix, like duplicated keys in attrsets.
- [x] Undefiend names.
- [x] Warnings of legacy syntax.
- [x] Warnings of unnecessary syntax.
- [x] Warnings of unused bindings, `with` and `rec`.
- [ ] Client pulled diagnostics.
- [x] Expand selection. `textDocument/selectionRange`
- [x] Renaming. `textDocument/renamme`, `textDocument/prepareRename`
- [x] Identifiers in parameters and bindings, from `let`, rec and non-rec attrsets.
- [x] Static string literal bindings.
- [x] Merged path-value binding names.
- [ ] Names introduced by `inherit`.
- [ ] Names used by `inherit`.
- [ ] Conflict detection.
- [x] Rename to string literals.
- [ ] Cross-file analysis.
- [ ] Multi-threaded.
## Installation
This repo is packaged via [Nix flakes][nix-flakes], the language server binary package is
available through the default flake output `github:oxalica/nil#` with the path `bin/nil`.
You can [enable flakes support][nix-flakes-install] in your nix configuration, and then
run `nix profile install github:oxalica/nil` to get `nil` installed.
You can also use this repository as a flake input and add its output to your own flake-managed
systemwide or home configuration.
Flake output structure:
```
├───devShells
│ └───(...)
└───packages
├───x86_64-linux
│ ├───default: package 'nil-unstable-2022-08-04'
│ └───nil: package 'nil-unstable-2022-08-04'
└───(...)
```
[nix-flakes]: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes
[nix-flakes-install]: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes#Installing_flakes
## Editor integration
### Neovim native LSP and [`nvim-lspconfig`]
[`nvim-lspconfig`]: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig
We are officially supported by `nvim-lspconfig`, see [upstream docs](https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/0fafc3ef648bd612757630097c96b725a36a0476/doc/server_configurations.txt#nil_ls).
### Vim/Neovim via [`coc.nvim`]
[`coc.nvim`]: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
Merge this setting into your `coc-settings.json`, which can be opened by `:CocConfig`.
```json
{
"languageserver": {
"nix": {
"command": "nil",
"filetypes": ["nix"],
"rootPatterns": ["flake.nix"]
}
}
}
```
### Emacs [`eglot`]
[`eglot`]: https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot
Add the following elisp code to your configuration. (using `use-package`)
```elisp
(use-package nix-mode)
(use-package eglot
:config
;; Ensure `nil` is in your PATH.
(add-to-list 'eglot-server-programs '(nix-mode . ("nil")))
:hook
(nix-mode . eglot-ensure))
```
## License
"nil" is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT
license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).
See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.