Jeff Huffman

Context-aware history suggestions (current working directory & more)

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### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Autosuggestion was the single thing I liked most about fish, so when I considered switching to zsh, I was...

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Flakes in the nix store do not retain references to their inputs

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**Describe the bug** Many nixos + flakes users keep a reference to `self` in their nixos generations, for traceability, however this does not ensure that inputs to the flake are...

**Describe the bug** One of the notable uses of flakes is to provide traceability. For example, one may include a reference to `self.outPath` in one's nixos configuration in order to...

nomenclature surrounding derivations

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There's a lot of ambiguity and confusion surrounding the terms "package" and "derivation" currently. It would be good to provide a consistent set of terminology in this book. The current...

"Run without installing" fails

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When I try to "Run without installing" `wezterm` (just what I happened to try), I get `env: ‘gtk-launch’: No such file or directory` on the console and nothing else happens....

Ease path to adding new external command parsers

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I'd like to see a way to `.override` resholve from nixpkgs to effectively throw in some arbitrary extra code into `ExternalCommandParsers`. The override should also affect `resholve.writeScript` and such as...

underlying parse failure on `coproc` with group/braced command-list form

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``` nix-repl> pkgs.resholve.version "0.8.0" nix-repl> :b pkgs.resholve.writeScript "foo" { interpreter = "${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash"; inputs = [];} "coproc TEST { echo foo; }; cat

Introduction should clarify that hashes are used in paths to software

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This section: https://github.com/divnix/nix-book/blob/f6448f447d5584854803ac7829e3dd1c00686a32/src/ch02-00-introduction.md?plain=1#L12-L18 is difficult to follow because no mention has yet been made that hashes are used to determine the paths at which software is installed. Many of the...

Warn about abusing FODs?

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Somewhere in https://book.divnix.com/ch04-00-derivations.html#fixed-output-derivations-fods it should probably mention the dangers of doing complex things inside FODs, given that this is a common newbie trap. Maybe something like: You may be tempted...